Researchers Explore New Non-Medicinal Treatments For Type 2 Diabetes

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Promising new research has raised the possibility of treating type 2 diabetes without drugs.

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Researchers have demonstrated that short bursts of ultrasound targeted at specific nerves clusters in the liver can reduce insulin and glucose levels.

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A team led by GE Research and investigators from Yale School of Medicine, UCLA, and the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, reported in the Nature Biomedical Engineering journal.

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A unique non-invasive ultrasound method is designed in the study to stimulate specific sensory nerves in the liver. Called peripheral focused ultrasound stimulation (pFUS)

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The technology lets highly targeted ultrasound pulses to hit tissues containing nerve endings.

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The newly published study indicates short targeted bursts of pFUS at this area of the liver successfully reversed the onset of hyperglycaemia.

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The treatment was found to be effective in three separate animal models of diabetes: mice, rats and pigs.

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