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The Mechanical Insulin

The Mechanical Insulin. By: Hannah King and Brianca Nelson .

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The Mechanical Insulin

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  1. The Mechanical Insulin By: Hannah King and Brianca Nelson

  2. In type 1 diabetes, for unknown reasons, the body's immune defenses destroy the insulin-making cells in the pancreas early in life. Repair or regeneration of these cells within the body is impossible, so no insulin will ever be produced. Rather, insulin must be delivered by injection or external pump for the diabetic's life. Blood sugar cells, as they pass through the pancreas, take in the release of insulin from the pancreas from a group of cells known as beta cells. Therefore, insulin recovers the sugar from the blood stream and makes it go toward muscles or other body tissues in need of sugar. It must be known that diabetes affects the pancreas, since it is the pancreas that are meant to regulate the blood sugar levels and make sure insulin release to this end. As the body doesn’t take in the sugar that goes to the tissues and muscles, so the sugar gets removed from the blood stream. The beta cells are supposed to release insulin fail to lower the blood sugar level but, due to the inability or resistance of the body tissues it’s more likely to get diabetes. Introduction

  3. The Mechanical Insulin Our invention is a high technical device that will be inserted into the body and dispenses insulin into the pancreas. This will be done through a surgical method where the device will be inserted into the pancreas. The device will be a sensor that will detect when insulin is needed in the body. When it is needed, insulin will then be dispensed into the pancreas to help the body regulate its blood sugar. This invention is a high technical version of the insulin pump, but is more efficient because the person will not have to remember to put insulin in the body when this device would do it for them.

  4. Improving Life of a Diabetic This would help improve the life of diabetic by helping them not have to regulate their insulin intake as much because the device would do it for them. It would help then not stress over the fact that they either do or don’t have enough insulin in their body.

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  6. Sources • Roth, Mark. (2009). Can pig pancreas help cure diabetes?. Post-gazette.com. Retrieved from http://www.postgazette.com/stories/news/health/can-pig-pancreas-help-cure-diabetes-369860/ • http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2004/02/62454

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