That mothers protect their child since they conceive it is a fact, even unconsciously, as shown in a study conducted at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle (USA), where they have found high levels of maternal DNA in the blood of children and young people with type 1 diabetes, at a higher level than in their healthy siblings, which may indicate that maternal cells try to repair damaged tissue in your child's pancreas.
They have found no evidence that maternal cells attack your child's insulin cells, nor that it is an immune response from the child's system, so the author of the study, J. Lee Nelson suggests that these cells could produce insulin, the hormone that diabetes lacks and even be trying to repair damaged tissue in the pancreas.
They also discovered that the cells that pass during pregnancy from mother to child can be differentiated into islets of functional beta cells and that these can produce insulin in the child. The phenomenon called microchimerism (when an individual carries cells from another) maternal, could be beneficial and a new way to treat type 1 diabetes. If the child tolerates maternal cells because he acquired them during pregnancy while his immune system was developing , these stem cells could be cultured and be a treatment to cure your child's diabetes.
Fortunately, the results of the study have not been as the researchers initially thought, they had the theory that too many maternal cells in the fetus could become beta cells that produce insulin in the child, causing diabetes because he had a genetic half alien not tolerated.
Finding a way that this acquired microchimerism is used as a cure, in this case of type 1 diabetes, will be a breakthrough that we hope will soon be news.
