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Present and future cell therapies for pancreatic beta cell replenishment

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If only at a small scale,islet transplantation has successfully addressed what ought to be the primary endpoint of any cell therapy:the functional replenishment of damaged tissue in patients.After years of less-thanoptimal approaches to immunosuppression,recent advances consistently yield long-term graft survival rates comparable to those of whole pancreas transplantation.Limited organ availability is the main hurdle that stands in the way of the widespread clinical utilization of this pioneering intervention.Progress in stem cell research over the past decade,coupled with our decades-long experience with islet transplantation,is shaping the future of cell therapies for the treatment of diabetes.Here we review the most promising avenues of research aimed at generating an inexhaustible supply of insulin-producing cells for islet regeneration,including the differentiation of pluripotent and multipotent stem cells of embryonic and adult origin along the beta cell lineage and the direct reprogramming of non-endocrine tissues into insulin-producing cells.

Human embryonic stem cellsInduced pluripotent stem cellsMesenchymal stem cellsBeta cell differentiationReprogrammingIslet transplantation

Juan Domínguez-Bendala、Camillo Ricordi

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Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Leonard M.Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, United States

Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami,FL 33136, United States

2012

世界胃肠病学杂志(英文版)
太原消化病研治中心

世界胃肠病学杂志(英文版)

SCI
影响因子:1.001
ISSN:1007-9327
年,卷(期):2012.18(47)
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