A clinical study on a promising treatment for Type 1 diabetes developed by a Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researcher in collaboration with the University of Colorado Health Science Center had an "exceptional outcome" after an eight-week treatment of Alpha1-Antitrypsin (AAT).According to the study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, the goal was to evaluate safety and effect of a novel therapy using the anti-inflammatory serum protein Alpha1-Antitrypsin (AAT) in Type 1 Diabetes patients in the first of three published Phase 1 open trials.

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