Pancreatic islet transplantation: current advances and challenges

Q Wang, Y Huang, L Liu, X Zhao, Y Sun… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Diabetes is a prevalent chronic disease that traditionally requires severe reliance on
medication for treatment. Oral medication and exogenous insulin can only temporarily …

No time to die—how islets meet their demise in transplantation

A Kale, NM Rogers - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Islet transplantation represents an effective treatment for patients with type 1 diabetes
mellitus (T1DM) and severe hypoglycaemia unawareness, capable of circumventing …

Engineering the lymph node environment promotes antigen-specific efficacy in type 1 diabetes and islet transplantation

JM Gammon, ST Carey, V Saxena, HB Eppler… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Antigen-specific tolerance is a key goal of experimental immunotherapies for autoimmune
disease and allograft rejection. This outcome could selectively inhibit detrimental …

3D‐Printed biohybrid microstructures enable transplantation and vascularization of microtissues in the anterior chamber of the eye

H Kavand, M Visa, M Köhler… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hybridizing biological cells with man‐made sensors enable the detection of a wide range of
weak physiological responses with high specificity. The anterior chamber of the eye (ACE) is …

[HTML][HTML] A novel bioartificial pancreas fabricated via islets microencapsulation in anti-adhesive core-shell microgels and macroencapsulation in a hydrogel scaffold …

H Li, Y Shang, Q Feng, Y Liu, J Chen, H Dong - Bioactive Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Islets transplantation is a promising treatment for type 1 diabetes mellitus. However, severe
host immune rejection and poor oxygen/nutrients supply due to the lack of surrounding …

[HTML][HTML] A worldwide survey of activities and practices in clinical islet of Langerhans transplantation

T Berney, A Andres, MD Bellin… - Transplant …, 2022 - frontierspartnerships.org
A global online survey was administered to 69 islet transplantation programs, covering 84
centers and 5 networks. The survey addressed questions on program organization and …

Co-transplantation of pancreatic islets and microvascular fragments effectively restores normoglycemia in diabetic mice

S Wrublewsky, A Weinzierl, I Hornung… - NPJ Regenerative …, 2022 - nature.com
Insufficient revascularization of pancreatic islets is one of the major obstacles impairing the
success of islet transplantation. To overcome this problem, we introduce in the present study …

Bioengineering the vascularized endocrine pancreas: a fine-tuned interplay between vascularization, extracellular-matrix-based scaffold architecture, and insulin …

C Pignatelli, F Campo, A Neroni… - Transplant …, 2022 - frontierspartnerships.org
Intrahepatic islet transplantation is a promising β-cell replacement strategy for the treatment
of type 1 diabetes. Instant blood-mediated inflammatory reactions, acute inflammatory storm …

[HTML][HTML] Light-stimulated insulin secretion from pancreatic islet-like organoids derived from human pluripotent stem cells

J Choi, E Shin, J Lee, S Devarasou, D Kim, JH Shin… - Molecular Therapy, 2023 - cell.com
Optogenetic techniques permit non-invasive, spatiotemporal, and reversible modulation of
cellular activities. Here, we report a novel optogenetic regulatory system for insulin secretion …

Emerging strategies for beta cell transplantation to treat diabetes

J Paez-Mayorga, I Lukin, D Emerich, P de Vos… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Beta cell replacement has emerged as an attractive therapeutic alternative to traditional
exogenous insulin administration for management of type 1 diabetes (T1D). Beta cells …