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Treatment of diabetes mellitus with microencapsulated fetal human liver (FH-B-TPN) engineered cells.
Biomaterials - 1 May 2013
Montanucci Pia, Pennoni Ilaria, Pescara Teresa, Basta Giuseppe, Calafiore Riccardo
Abstract excerpt
Transplantation of whole human pancreases or isolated islets into patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus has been severely hampered by the scarcity of cadaveric human donor organs, which mandates search for insulin producing cells/tissue source alternatives. Recent progress in stem cell biology h...
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