Ultrasound & Diabetes
2022-04-10 17:47:26.640532+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
This is interesting, although the study was funded by GE Ultrasound, and this write-up is in a web site that's giving me ads with foot pressure points for organs, so more than a little hokum: Diabetes successfully treated using ultrasound in preclinical study
The newly published study indicates short targeted bursts of pFUS at this area of the liver successfully reversed the onset of hyperglycaemia. The treatment was found to be effective in three separate animal models of diabetes: mice, rats and pigs.
The actual paper is subscription-only: Nature Biomedical Engineering: Therapeutic ultrasound modulates autonomic nerve pathways in diabetes
Ultrasound pulses have been used to modulate a liver–brain autonomic nerve pathway to prevent or reverse the onset of hyperglycaemia in models of diabetes in several species. The ion channel TRPA1 was shown to be essential in transducing the ultrasound stimuli within the metabolic control circuit.