As a treatment for diabetes in people, pig insulin typically works as well as the human form.

作为人类糖尿病的治疗方法，猪胰岛素与人类胰岛素具相同的作用。

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Before that, diabetics had been treated with insulin that came from a different source, usually from pigs, so by harvesting and purifying insulin from pig pancreas.

在此之前 糖尿病患者,所用的胰岛素来自于不同的来源,通常是从猪身上提取的,是从猪的胰腺中提取并纯化而成的

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