Acceleration of Functional Maturation and Differentiation of Neonatal Porcine Islet Cell Monolayers Shortly In Vitro Cocultured with Microencapsulated Sertoli Cells

The limited availability of cadaveric human donor pancreata as well as the incomplete success of the Edmonton protocol for human islet allografts fasten search for new sources of insulin the producing cells for substitution cell therapy of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (T1DM). Starting from is...

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Main Authors: Francesca Mancuso, Mario Calvitti, Giovanni Luca, Claudio Nastruzzi, Tiziano Baroni, Stefania Mazzitelli, Ennio Becchetti, Iva Arato, Carlo Boselli, Monique D. Ngo Nselel, Riccardo Calafiore
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2010-01-01
Series:Stem Cells International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2010/587213
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