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SUBMITTER: Hara M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2907646 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hara Manami M Yin Dengping D Dizon Restituto F RF Shen Jikun J Chong Anita S AS Bindokas Vytas P VP
Transplantation 20040801 4
Intrahepatic human islet transplantation has raised hopes for a cure for diabetes mellitus, especially in patients with type 1 diabetes; however, the need for a substantial amount of islets and, in many instances, repeated transplantations demonstrates underlying problems with this procedure, such as failure of angiogenesis and immunologic rejection. Studies using rodent models may be helpful in improving the success of islet transplantation. However, most of the studies using rodents for islet ...[more]