How is Insulin Collected From Pigs

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How is Insulin Collected From Pigs?
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What Happens If You Dont Have Insulin?

• Type 1 Diabetes
• (Insulin-Dependent because your body produces
  little insulin)
• Symptoms
• kidney failure
• Blindness
• heart complications
• Stroke
• Treatment insulin injections or nasal sprays

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Insulin Collection From Pigs
Crystallized Insulin
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Current Methods for Insulin Collection

• Genetically engineered bacteria produce human
  insulin
• Bacteria populations in large fermentation tanks
  double in size every 2 hours.
• Purified insulin is packaged into pens, nasal
  sprays or vials

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Current Cure

• Edmonton Protocol - Inject blood-typed- matched
  islet cells into the liver
• liver can regenerate itself
• must take immunosuppressant drugs for life
• Only 10 failure, another 10 rejection rate

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Are Pigs the Future?

• Xenotransplantation using porcine islet cells
• Presently still experimenting on baboons
• Possibility of introducing new disease into human
  population
• Animal rights issues?

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