Pancreatic islets in bed with microvasculature—companions for life

Corinne A. Hoesli; Timothy J. Kieffer

Cell Reports Medicine (Nov 2021)

Pancreatic islets in bed with microvasculature—companions for life

Corinne A. Hoesli,
Timothy J. Kieffer

Affiliations

Corinne A. Hoesli: Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Department of Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Corresponding author
Timothy J. Kieffer: Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; School of Biomedical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Corresponding author

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 11
p. 100454

Abstract

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Summary: In Cell Stem Cell, Aghazadeh et al.1 show that human embryonic stem cell-derived pancreatic progenitors can reverse hyperglycemia for several weeks in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice when co-transplanted with microvessel fragments into the subcutaneous space.

Published in Cell Reports Medicine

ISSN: 2666-3791 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General)
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