Artificial pancreas

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ABSTRACT:
An artificial pancreas comprising a blood sugar determination unit for measuring the blood sugar of the living body, an injection unit including a container for a blood sugar control agent and a feed pump for the control agent and adapted to inject the control agent into the living body, and an arithmetic control unit for calculating the dose of the control agent based on the blood sugar measurement and controlling the pump of the injection unit in accordance with the result of calculation. The blood sugar determination unit has an electrode assembly to be inserted into the living body for measuring the blood sugar. The feed pump comprises a plurality of rollers rotatably mounted on a rotatable roller holder along the outer periphery of the holder and an elastic tube having an intermediate portion reeved around some of the rollers under tension.

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