Bio-reactors
Johns Hopkins students have finally created a new advanced device that offers new techniques to cure diabetes and fulminant liver failure.
This new device is built in a small housing to enable bio-reactors to operate efficiently and is covered with a band of nylon mesh.Its outer stent is made of stainless steel, inner one with nitinol and to produce insulin and other proteins that body requires a small bio-reactor is also created inside the vein.
By affixing transplanted insulin-producing cells in a major blood vessel to enhance cell therapy a cell therapy pouch is also formed on the gap between the two stent.
The components of this pouch are so prepared that they can be squeezed and inserted with catheters and also allows physicians to twist them into the abdomen via femoral vein in the leg.
It is also noteworthy that by utilizing real-time imaging technology, an interventional radiologist can also view and guide the minimally invasive procedure as it takes place.
The pouch facilitates to keep microcapsules of therapeutic cells in one position and also allows them to prosper and to send out required insulin.
According to inventors this same approach could also be used in cell therapy to eliminate other ailments including liver disease.
