加拿大安大略消息:研究人员在此地报告说,环孢菌素治疗使一组早期1型糖尿病人的一半患者缓解,提供了更多证据表明此种疾病有自身免疫的发病机理。安大略大学医院的研究人员发现,30名在诊断6周内开始治疗的病人中16人经2—12周环孢菌素治疗后成为不依赖胰岛素型。但11名在诊断后8—44周开始治疗的病人中2人成为不依赖胰岛素,研究人员认为疗效可能取决于早期治疗。该医院移植研究中心主任Calvin R Stiller说,在他研究中的缓解率与以前报告的约3％的自发缓解率相比似乎是惊人的。虽然仍 ONTARIO, AUSTRALIA: Researchers here report that cyclosporine treatment relieves a half of a group of patients with early-stage type 1 diabetes and provides more evidence that the disease has an autoimmune pathogenesis. Researchers at the University Hospital of Ontario found that 16 of 30 patients who started treatment within 6 weeks of diagnosis became insulin independent after 2-12 weeks of cyclosporine treatment. However, 11 of the 11 patients who started treatment at 8-44 weeks after diagnosis became insulin-independent and the researchers concluded that efficacy may depend on early treatment. Calvin R Stiller, director of the transplant center at the hospital, said the rate of remission in his study appears to be staggering compared with the previously reported spontaneous remission rate of about 3%. Although still