Islet Transplantation a Decade Later and Strategies for Filling a Half-Full Glass

Comment on: Robertson (2010) Islet transplantation a decade later and strategies for filling a half-full glass. Diabetes;59:1285-1291.

In his Perspectives in Diabetes (1), Robertson asked whether islet transplantation achievements should be considered a partial failure or a partial success. This question, which would sound naïve for bone marrow, skin, or organ transplantation, is actually more than germane for islet transplantation. So far, no study has formally compared the outcomes of patients with type 1 diabetes receiving ...

Co-Transplantation of VEGF-Expressing Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Enhance Islet Revascularization in Diabetic Nude Mice

Background: Pancreatic islet transplantation has emerged as a promising treatment for type I diabetes. However, its efficacy is severely hampered due to poor islet engraftment and revascularization, which have been resulted to partially loss of transplanted islets. It has been shown that local delivery of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) could accelerate transplanted islet revasculari...

Introducing a New Experimental Islet Transplantation Model using Biomimetic Hydrogel and a Simple High Yield Islet Isolation Technique

Background: Islet transplantation could be an ideal alternative treatment to insulin therapy for type 1 diabetes Mellitus (T1DM). This clinical and experimental field requires a model that covers problems such as requiring a large number of functional and viable islets, the optimal transplantation site, and the prevention of islet dispersion. Hence, the methods of choice for isolation of functi...

Let’s Raise a Half-Full Glass to the Zombie NHS: A Response to Recent Commentaries

درمان دیابت القاء شده با استرپتوزوتوسین به وسیله قرنطینه ایمنی سلولهای جزایر لانگرهانس از طریق پیوند درموشهای صحرایی نر

Introduction & Objective: Insulin injection is the main way to combat against insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus effects. Today in some laboratories in the world, the investigators are trying to find some treatments for this disease with insulin-secreting pancreatic islet cells transplantation. Encapsulation of pancreatic islet cells allows for transplantation in the absence of immunosuppressi...