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Angelyn Evan Bomediano posted an update in the group MT 30 – GH (Lec) 1 year, 11 months ago
Hello everyone, Good Evening! I hope y’all are doing great. I would just like to share this article I read about “Human blood vessel organoids as a model of diabetic vasculopathy”. This text contains reports on the formation of three-dimensional self-organizing human blood artery organoids from pluripotent stem cells. According to IDF Diabetes Atlas (2021), there are 537 million adults who are living with Diabetes. Sadly, with this known statistics, my family are one of which. With that being said, I am highly encouraging you all to take time in reading this article as this disease is one of the commonly neglected yet prevalent and dangerous one. Remember also that awareness is always better than treatments.
Human blood vessel organoids as a model of diabetic vasculopathy – PubMedThe increasing prevalence of diabetes has resulted in a global epidemic1. Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks, stroke and amputation of lower limbs. These are often caused by changes in blood vessels, such as the expansion of the basement membrane and a l …
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Wimmer, R. A., Leopoldi, A., Aichinger, M., Wick, N., Hantusch, B., Novatchkova, M., Taubenschmid, J., Hämmerle, M., Esk, C., Bagley, J. A., Lindenhofer, D., Chen, G., Boehm, M., Agu, C. A., Yang, F., Fu, B., Zuber, J., Knoblich, J. A., Kerjaschki, D., & Penninger, J. M. (2019). Human blood vessel organoids as a model of diabetic vasculopathy. Nature, 565(7740), 505–510. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0858-8
Link: https://www.biochemed.com/news/mice-used-in-diabetes-research-everything-you-need-to-know-about-this-important-research-model/