{"id":2284,"date":"2018-08-28T10:20:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T14:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:01:52","slug":"new-therapy-could-reverse-type-1-diabetes-in-humans-and-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/new-therapy-could-reverse-type-1-diabetes-in-humans-and-dogs.php","title":{"rendered":"New Therapy Could Reverse Type 1 Diabetes In Humans And Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable-paragraph\">Researchers at Purdue University and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.iu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Indiana University School of Medicine<\/a>\u00a0(IU) are working with man\u2019s best friend to cure one of his most insidious diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists say a new therapy shows promise for long-term reversal of Type 1 diabetes in both humans and dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Purdue\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/releases\/2018\/Q3\/new-type-1-diabetes-therapy-shows-promise-for-long-term-reversal-in-both-humans,-dogs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>\u00a0this week that scientists achieved normal glucose levels in diabetes-induced mice by injecting them with a collagen solution mixed with pancreatic cells. It is the first minimally invasive therapy to successfully reverse Type 1 diabetes within 24 hours and maintain insulin independence for at least 90 days, scientists report.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers effectively ushered in healthy pancreatic cells like a Trojan horse, with the Trojan horse being a protein the body already makes for building muscles, bones, skin and blood vessels-collagen.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robinseatonjefferson\/2018\/08\/24\/new-therapy-could-reverse-type-1-diabetes-in-humans-and-dogs\/#60e5b5a75835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Therapy Could Reverse Type 1 Diabetes In Humans And Dogs on Forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Purdue University and\u00a0Indiana University School of Medicine\u00a0(IU) are working with man\u2019s best friend to cure one of his most insidious diseases. The scientists say a new therapy shows promise for long-term reversal of Type 1 diabetes in both humans and dogs. Purdue\u00a0reported\u00a0this week that scientists achieved normal glucose levels in diabetes-induced mice by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33221,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions\/33221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}