Sentences with phrase «islet transplants insulin»

Islet transplants Insulin is normally produced by islet or beta cells in the pancreas.

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While these islet cell transplants dramatically improved blood sugar control in the short term, all but five of the 36 recipients needed additional insulin shots within two years.

«The transplanted islets need a lot of oxygenation and a connection to the body's circulatory system to sense the glucose levels and transport the insulin,» noted García, who is also the Rae and Frank H. Neely Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering.

Combining a new hydrogel material with a protein that boosts blood vessel growth could improve the success rate for transplanting insulin - producing islet cells into persons with type 1 diabetes.

Diabetes researchers are considering various replacements for insulin injections: Transplanting new pancreatic islet cells that make insulin, coaxing the patient's own islets to regenerate, or treating diabetics early in the disease with immune - suppressing therapies to prevent their body from destroying the rest of their pancreatic islets.

Participants who still needed insulin 75 days after transplant were eligible for another islet infusion.

«The loss of insulin - producing beta cells leads to type 1 diabetes, making it an ideal target for cell replacement therapy,» said James Shapiro, MD, PhD, FRCSC, Director of the Clinical Islet Transplant Program, University of Alberta.

The diabetic volunteer continued to produce insulin one year after she received a transplant of abdominal islet cells.

To create a lasting source of insulin - producing beta cells for transplant, we are developing new methods to promote differentiation from pancreatic stem cells into healthy islets.