Sentences with phrase «got islet cells»
We got islet cells from the pancreases of healthy dogs, encapsulated them, and transferred them to diabetic dogs, who became insulin independent.
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«Islet cells are very precious because we get so few from each donor.
But when islet cells begin turning into tumors, the FAK protein gets overproduced, researchers found.
She says getting the correct dosage is all - important and plans to develop a biomarker to show whether the BCG is having even a subtherapeutic effect on the immune cells that target islets.
Faustman got her idea by chance while transplanting islets, the pancreatic bodies that contain beta cells, from normal mice into others that had lost theirs to type 1, or juvenile, diabetes.
How did you get from islet cells to embryonic ones?