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SUBMITTER: Richards TM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7555367 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Richards Taylor Marie TM Sun Aixia A Hayat Hasaan H Robertson Neil N Zhang Zhaoda Z Fan Jinda J Wang Ping P
Life (Basel, Switzerland) 20200919 9
Islet transplantation has great potential as a cure for type 1 diabetes. At present; the lack of a clinically validated non-invasive imaging method to track islet grafts limits the success of this treatment. Some major clinical imaging modalities and various molecular probes, which have been studied for non-invasive monitoring of transplanted islets, could potentially fulfill the goal of understanding pathophysiology of the functional status and viability of the islet grafts. In this current rev ...[more]