In response to high levels of glucose in the blood, the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas secrete the hormone insulin. Type I diabetes occurs when these cells are destroyed by the body’s own immune system.
Review Date: 05/20/2009
Reviewed By: Deborah Wexler, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard
Medical School, Endocrinologist, Massachusetts General Hospital.
Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M.,
Inc.
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