Cell Transplantation reports consistent and successful islet isolations offer diabetes hope
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Cell Transplantation reports consistent and successful islet isolations offer diabetes hope
Inconsistent islet isolation is an important issue in islet transplantation. Now, a team of American and Japanese researchers has found a way to more consistently isolate pancreatic islet cells from brain dead donors using ductal injection, a process that immediately cools donor islet cells at the injection site. A study utilizing the more successful islet isolation process resulted in three type 1-diabetes patients who received islet cell transplants becoming insulin independent.
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Tags: Pancreatic Disease, Diabetes, Insulin, Brain, Transplantation
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Consistent and successful islet isolations offer diabetes hope http://bit.ly/cgXUp0 (There will never be enough human cadaver islets 4 all)
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scienceblog.com — “//Tampa, Fla. (June 3, 2010) — A team of researchers from several collaborating Baylor University research centers and from Japan’s Okayama Graduate School of Medicine have found a way to more consistently isolate pancreatic islet cells from brain dead” View full resource at scienceblog.com
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