tailieunhanh - TYPE 1 DIABETES

The discovery of the hormone insulin by Frederick Banting and colleagues in the early 1920’s is one of the greatest medical breakthroughs and has saved millions of lives over the years. The significance of the discovery is underscored by the fact that type 1 diabetics still have an absolute requirement for daily injections of insulin to live. Clearly, today’s insulin treatments have attained levels of sophistication that have greatly improved clinical out‐ come . | TYPE 1 DIABETES Edited by Alan P. Escher and Alice Li Type 1 Diabetes http 45927 Edited by Alan P. Escher and Alice Li Contributors Thomas Frese Laura Nabors Bashoo Naziruddin Morihito Takita Nigar Seven Marlon Levy Shereen Abdelghaffar Aleksandar N. Jovanovic Radojica V. Stolic Vladan Peric Snezana Markovic-Jovanovic Johnny Ludvigsson Nepton Soltani Donovan Anthony McGrowder Lennox Anderson-Jackson Tazhmoye Crawford Baqiyyah Conway Amanda C. Peltier Elena Matteucci Ottavio Giampietro Hakon Hakonarson Marina Bakay Rahul Pandey Wen-Chin Lee Huei-Jane Lee Elina Linetsky Camillo Ricordi Luca Inverardi Jixin Zhong Mona Abbassy Ippei Watari Takashi Ono Ahmed Bakry Philip Newsholme Kevin Keane Mauricio Krause Paulo Ivo Homem De Bittencourt Jr. Werner Gurr Mohamed Mirza Jahromi a Pereira Ana Cristina Almeida Engracia Leandro Didier Hober Mustafa Cesur Irmak Sayin Chang-Qing Xia Alan Escher Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9 51000 Rijeka Croatia Copyright 2013 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution license which allows users to download copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes as long as the author and publisher are properly credited which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech authors have the right to republish it in whole or part in any publication of which they are the author and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. Notice Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the published chapters. The publisher assumes no responsibility for any damage or injury to persons or property arising out of the use of any .