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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Artificial pancreas system"”.
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Automating Health: The Promises and Perils of Biomedical Technologies for Diabetes Management
… technology used to manage T1D today, the Artificial Pancreas System (APS), to demonstrate how seemingly liberating automated biomedical technologies can entangle, subjugate, and confine those they aim to free. This study features the analysis of two distinct social groups by focusing on …
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Chemical strategies for improving anti-diabetic glucagon therapy
The pancreas functions to carry out one of the most critical functions in the human metabolism, viz. glucose homeostasis. It achieves homeostasis by producing hormones including insulin and glucagon which act on different cell types to affect blood glucose concentrations. Under certain conditions, …
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Closed-loop insulin delivery in adults with type 1 diabetes
… feasibility and safety of a closed-loop or ’artificial pancreas’ system linking insulin delivery with continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), in adults with type 1 diabetes in a controlled setting. Three randomised crossover studies compared closed-loop insulin delivery with conventional insulin …
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Verification and Validation of Artificial Pancreas Systems Software
… privacy standards. This dissertation examines artificial pancreas systems (APSs) as an example of emerging open-source DIY medical software solutions. We focus on AndroidAPS, an Android-based APS implementation primarily written in Kotlin. We address the need for testing and validating the …