Good morning all, today we have a guest lecturer.
Again, I will happily accept papers they you would like to write. The more detailed and narrow the better, this is a slot for the ‘academic’…are you up for the challenge?
‘Associate Professor’ Calo has graciously taken up the challenge to deliver the a Saturday Lecture so here it is:
Diabetes Type I
A Vaccine Possible?
Overview
Diabetes is a disease that affects how the body uses glucose, or sugar. Glucose comes from the all types of foods we eat and is the source of energy used to fuel our body’s cells. After you eat, the body breaks down food into glucose and other nutrients. They are absorbed into the bloodstream via the gut or gastrointestinal tract. Glucose in the blood rises after a meal which causes the pancreas to make insulin and release it into the bloodstream. The insulin and sugar enter the body’s cells together.
People with diabetes cannot make or respond to insulin properly. Their pancreas is unable to manufacture insulin. Sugar stays in the bloodstream and is unable to enter the body’s cells without insulin. This causes high blood sugar levels in the bloodstream or hyperglycemia. http://www.endocrineweb.com/conditions/diabetes/symptoms-hyperglycemia Blood sugars that are too high and not treated may result in coma and eventual death.
Here are some additional links to Type I Diabetes
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/type-1-diabetes/DS00329
http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=108036
http://www.endocrineweb.com/conditions/diabetes/normal-regulation-blood-glucose
Here are some quick facts on Diabetes Type I
Causes and Research on of Type I Diabetes
The medical community is not quite sure why some people develop Type I Diabetes but they think it has something to do with genes. A person would then have to be exposed to something else, like a virus, to get Type I Diabetes. Here are some common viruses that are thought to cause Type I Diabetes. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/type-1-diabetes-in-children/DS00931/DSECTION=risk-factors
However, last month researchers discovered a common virus that might be the cause for Type I Diabetes called enterovirus.
a common virus that can cause cold-like symptoms, fever, or diarrhea and may be linked to the development of this disease. A new study published in the journal BMJ provides further evidence that these viruses play a role in Type I Diabetes.
The new study was a meta-analysis, meaning the researchers did not conduct any human trials, but reviewed and compared data from about 5,000 people with Type I Diabetes to draw their conclusions. Based on the data, the researchers concluded that there is a clinically significant association between enterovirus infection and Type I Diabetes.
Here is a telling statistic from one of the sub-articles: In the study, the researchers tested the blood of 112 children, ages 2 to 16, at the time of Type I Diabetes diagnosis to see if their blood contained enteroviral DNA. The researchers found genetic signs of enterovirus infection in 83 percent of the diabetic children, compared with just 7 percent of children without diabetes.
What does this new study mean to Type I Diabetics? Not much, it will not lead to a cure for those already afflicted with it. However, it does identify a likely viral culprit responsible for the disease. And, understanding the role viruses play in people who develop Type I diabetes does produces knowledge that could prevent the disease. Understanding the causes could lead to a vaccine to prevent it from occurring in the first place. And, that would be a good thing.
Background
My niece is a Type I Diabetic. Here is a quick video of her story
I have type 11 and very high cholsteral
recieved my latest numbers friday/not good at all
start my diet and exercise monday
till then I eat and drink!!!!!
the enterovirus link to type I is good stuff.
we understand the causative links for type II.
a vaccine could the prevent 80% or so of type one, and that is a good thing as they (i assume) attack the islets of langerhans in the pancreas
as background…polio is an enterovirus
how virii function…each phage attacks certain cells.
how a vaccine works
Since this is about a disease the following text is somehow related:
@ coldwarrior:
Sweet kids, noble cause.
Great post, Calo. Always tough to see children born with such an insidious disease. My father developed diabetes in his late 40′s. In his early 70′s he lost several toes of his right foot and, following quad-bypass surgery several months later, he lost his left leg just above the knee. He died, at age 84 in Nov. ’08, of kidney failure having refused the ordeal of dialysis. I have a sister and a brother who suffer from hypoglycemia and I suppose that points them in the direction of diabetes. So far, I’m good to go.
@ Guggi:
No, no. It’s got to be Muslim scientists. We have to stroke their ego, so they feel good about themselves and the contributions to science by the Islamic world.
Here’s a great piece by Mark Steyn regarding the balkanization of Europe and the U.S.: Why Are We Still In Germany?
Hurrah for smart, compassionate people working in the medical field.
A Muslim has been sent death threats after giving a lecture on the compatability of Islam and Darwinism.
The fact that Dr Usama Hasan is an imam and a university physics lecturer has obviously bypassed these Muslim fanatics who are threatening him.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/scientist-imam-threatened-over-darwinist-views-2232952.html
Prebanned wrote:
Amen
Prebanned wrote:
unless they are union public employees
working a university reasearch center//
mawskrat wrote:
Reminds me of a story I read in teh Kaleej Times years ago. The reporter was interviewing a Saudi astronomer about when the moon would be spotted to mark the start of Ramadan. The astronemr allowed as how it was stupid to send a bunch of old men up on a hilltop to look and see, when he would gladly supply the Ministry of Religious Affairs a spreadsheet with the exact time and date for the next 1000 years. His comments were, um, not well-received.
@ Mike C.:
but the Noble Koran is full of science!!
mfhorn wrote:
You beat me to it, the dastardly joooos stole it from
the peaceful Muslims.
Muslims are just trying to serve humanity through medical
innovation, scientific discovery & the institution of
enlightened Sharia Law.
I mean, just look at all of the Muslims Nobel Lauretes./
@ RIX:
RIX…the
forcesarc be strong in youmawskrat wrote:
The science of killing all Jews, Christians and Infidels!
BBL
mawskrat wrote:
Usually on Saturdays.
Having to do with nothing, Sean Penn is taking
Charlie Sheen with him on a humanitarian mission
to Haiti.
Haven’t those people suffered enough?
@ RIX:
Watch for an indie porn flick from these guys soon!
Macker wrote:
Gotta happen, doesn’t it? Winning!
if an enterovirus is involved in the onset of Type I Diabetes and we have viruses against others, then there is great hope of eliminating this nightmare. this is very good news even if it’s a small step in the direction of a vaccine. i really appreciate you sharing this and the story from your own family.
when i think of the billions of dollars that are spent by the pharmaceutical companies on research to find these cures, i get a little irritated with some folks i know in the literal world constantly denigrating the profits of these companies. i know the government uses our tax dollars to fund research too but it seems the pharmaceuticals invest a lot of their own profits into it as well.
Guggi wrote:
this is also very good news. we have really got to do something about the fixed retirement age in this country (well, in the western culture, really). think of the long term productivity of the people who won’t get the alzheimers and might choose not to retire! imagine the possibility of second careers and such or new businesses created by folks who otherwise might not be able to.
Well this is pretty crazy.
RIX wrote:
well, yes they have, but good riddance to bad rubbish, i say.
penn probably thinks he’s doing sheen a favor. it won’t work. sheen is more batshit crazy than i ever imagined a person could be since tom cruise.
@ Kirly:
Still one of the great pieces of film ever was Penn
in New Orleans after Katrina. He was going to row his
little boat down the street, but the plug was out &
he sank.
It was a classic moment.
Bumr50 wrote:
That one needs a great big “Well Duh” title slapped on it…
OT – Have we had any posts here on this?
RIX wrote:
ROTFLMAO… The pinnacle, insipidity and defining attribute of Sean Penn’s intellectual prowess.
RIX wrote:
yes indeed. a perfect demonstration that actors ACT like they know what they’re doing but, more often than not, are inept fools.
Bumr50 wrote:
Intentional disinformation, it really started on Sept. 15th 2007…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5HOscRbNwM
Yes, it was an act of economic warfare.
@ doriangrey:
Schumer should be charged with treason if it’s that cut and dry.
@ Kirly:
Sean Penn would be exhibit #1.
Like the majority of Hollywood types, he is poorly
educated & uninformed.(He “attended” Santa Monica HS)
But they love to interject themselves in current
affairs.
Bumr50 wrote:
It really is that cut ad dried, but I dont see how case for treason could reasonably be created against Schumer for trying to use a very covert act of economic warfare to the Democrat’s advantage. Nobody in either political party is willing to point fingers or name names as to who was responsible for that act of economic warfare, and I am pretty sure it wasn’t the democrat’s, although they are trying to benefit politically from it.
The problem is both political parties as well as the military brass at the Pentagon are fully aware of what would result if they actually named the country responsible for that act of war. Believe me when I tell you this, all hell would genuinely break loose. Do not think we did not and are not responding against the nation responsible. If it were to become full public knowledge what happened, our response would be forced to go from the receprical act of covert economic warfare to an open deceleration of war.
A full fledged military conflict with China is not in our best interests especially while we are entangled in two war’s in the middle east. Which by the way is exactly why china calculated that such an act was possible and in their favor when they did it. What they did not count on was the strength and resiliency of the US economy. China fell for the political hyperbole and propaganda of the American political parties who were jockeying for political power within the American political system.
The American economy is not nor was it as fragile as Democrat’s and the Republican’s portrayed it to be. The American economy is in reality insanely powerful and strong. It represent a full one half of the worlds economy, a fact very few people either know or are willing to admit. A fact easily enough verified just by looking and seeing that 1/5th, a full 20% of every dollar earned every year on the entire planet is earned in the United State’s of America, and has been for well over the last 100 years. That figure does not take into account American investments or influences abroad.
@ doriangrey:
( I hit submit to soon)
That 20% truly only represents the tip of the American economic iceberg, the part as it were showing above the surface.
RIX wrote:
true. but, i too attended LAUSD (Carson, just south of Compton and no, i’m not kidding; the Junior high i went to, Wilmington, was even worse) and i got a fairly decent education. back then it was still possible. education was what you made it. i knew early on that it was the only thing that would get me the hell out of that pit of racism and filth.
doriangrey wrote:
doriangrey wrote:
you’re yucking my wow of doom ™ here.
from the phrase “don’t yuck my wow”.
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