Sentences with phrase «pancreatic islets transplanted»

Also encouraging is the survival of pancreatic islets transplanted into rats by Andrew Posselt and Ali Naji of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Not exact matches

Using cells from cadavers, doctors have been experimentally transplanting pancreatic islets into humans for decades, but as many as 60 percent of the transplanted islets die immediately because they are cut off from their blood supply and are killed by an immune response due to direct injection into the bloodstream, and those that survive the transplant usually die within several months.

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.

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.

This specialized procedure is performed by Jeffrey B. Matthews, MD, chairman of the Department of Surgery, and Piotr Witkowski, MD, PhD, director of the Pancreatic and Islet Transplant program.

The Emory Transplant Center has conducted clinical trials since 2003 transplanting human pancreatic islet cells into patients with Type I diabetes.

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.