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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1985
Campus/Area
Race aids Med Center diabetes research
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
About 200 racers ran more than three miles Saturday to benefit diabetes research at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The proceeds from the five-kilometer Diabetes Dash at the Med Center will help finance diabetes research, with most of the funds benefiting isolation and transplantation of islets of Langerhans, Rachel Jorgensen, race coordinator, said yesterday.
Islets of Langerhans are tissues in the pancreas that produce insulin. Successfully transplanting the islets could result in a cure for diabetes, according to Wayne Moore, a professor of pediatrics who is researching islet transplantation.
Researchers have successfully transplanted islets in animals at the Med Center, Moore said, but have not attempted it on humans.
Diabetes is the third leading cause of death in the United States and affects about 5 percent of the population.
"We have an active program doing transplants in rats and mice and we want to extend it to humans within the next year," he said.
Scientists in St. Louis and Miami have performed a few islet transplants on humans and have obtained mixed results. Moore said.
Researchers have been able to grow islet cells that will not be rejected by the recipient. Because they understand, and can control, the method of rejection, researchers have been able to perform transplants between rats and mice.
"It's really phenomenal to be able to transplant within species, within different strains of rats," Moore said.
"Transplanting is from rat to mouse is actually quite a feat."
Jorgensen said she hoped proceeds from the race would contribute $8,000 to the research.
Although the race was run Saturday, the deadline for sponsorships and contributions is Nov. 26.
Hacers who collected $50 in sponsorships were not required to pay the $7 entry fee.
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