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Insulin-producing cells derived from human pancreatic non-endocrine cell cultures reverse streptozotocin-induced hyperglycaemia in mice.
Diabetologia - 1 Oct 2005
Zhao M, Amiel S A, Christie M R, Rela M, Heaton N, Huang G C
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: The aim of the study was to investigate the potential of human pancreatic non-endocrine cells to transdifferentiate into endocrine cells that would be capable of secreting insulin in response to glucose and ameliorating insulin-deficient diabetes after transplantation. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Cell fractions enriched with exocrine cells after human islet isolation were treated with streptozotocin...
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