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This project focuses on developing a new therapy for diabetes by exploring how parasitic worms can regulate immune responses. It aims to identify mechanisms that prevent autoimmune diabetes and assess the potential of worm-derived products in treating Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.
In Europe >33 million people suffer from diabetes, a chronic disease associated with long-term pathology representing one of the biggest cost factors for the health care system.
The ultimate goal of this proposal is to develop a novel immunomodulatory diabetes therapy by identifying parasitic worm (helminth) regulatory mechanisms which protect against autoimmune diseases.
The applicants’ previous work has shown that infection with the filarial helminth Litomosoides sigmodontis prevents Type I di…
UNIVERSITATSKLINIKUM BONN
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