Dr. Mark Pescovitz answers the question: 'Role Of Islet Cell Transplantation?' — -- Question: What is the role of islet cell transplantation in the treatment of diabetes? Answer: Islet cells are ...

The islets of Langerhans play a crucial role in blood sugar regulation. Fayette A Reynolds/Berkshire Community College Bioscience Image Library via Flickr Diabetes develops when the body fails to ...

GADA and IA-2A were negative (n = 22) or at low titer (n = 10) in all but 1 of the 33 patients who underwent islet and kidney transplantation. No relationship between the detection of GADA or IA-2A at ...

For Dr. Daniel Gilada, a husband, physician and soon-to-be father of four, living with Type 1 diabetes had become “overwhelming.” “I felt so bad that it was becoming my new norm,” said Gilada, ...

Islet Transplantation with Blood Vessel Cells Shows Promise to Treat Type 1 Diabetes Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the ...

For patients with brittle Type 1 diabetes, low blood sugar can be fatal. But CellTrans, spun out of decades of UI Health research, has developed an FDA-approved therapy to transplant insulin-producing ...

Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells and reversed diabetes in a preclinical study led by Weill Cornell Medicine ...

The immunofluorescent image shows human islet grafts that were pretreated with three small molecules (and controls for comparison) and transplanted into female or male mice. One week after ...

Chicago is ground zero in a couple of developments in the treatment of Type 1 diabetes and the debate about how the decades-old treatment has progressed. Longtime University of Chicago diabetes ...

Diabetes develops when the body fails to manage its blood glucose levels. One form of diabetes causes the body to not respond ...