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Dolphins struggle with diabetes
Loyal friends of the person dolphins help now physicians. Thanking it, probably, it will be possible to find a way of treatment of diabetes of the second type. The American scientists have found out, that dolphins-butylkonosov have a gene which is responsible for aversion of insulin - the same as at the people sick of diabetes. But these mammals are able to switch ability to perceive or tear away insulin.
This ability can become a key to opening of new methods of diabetes treatment. Stephanie Venn-Watson is practically assured of it, the head of veterinary service at National fund of studying sea mammal (San Diego, the USA). As she said, research of dolphins will help to cope with illness which millions people suffer. If scientists can learn, how dolphins include and disconnect system of resistance to the insulin, medicine working out will be following step.
The principal of research considers, that such ability has developed at dolphins because of their ration with the high maintenance of fiber and a disadvantage of carbohydrates. The brain of dolphins very big, therefore at them arises requirement for Saccharum. But the ration of dolphins in the nature is poor Saccharum, and their organism for a while disconnects a susceptibility to insulin. Thanks to it in blood glucose level raises. At other mammals (for example, at seals) it was not possible to find out such ability. But their brain is much less, than at dolphins.
Stefanii Venn-Watson has underlined, that participation of dolphins in researches does not mean, that they will be used as laboratory animals. It is unethical in relation to beings with so high intelligence. This statement is timely, as defenders of animals have already stated the protest against researches. Mark Simmonds, the head of the international society of studying of whales and dolphins, is assured, that genetic structures of a dolphin and the person too differ from each other, therefore similar experiments are useless.









