The promise of stem cell-derived islet replacement therapy

D Melton - Diabetologia, 2021 - Springer
Present-day treatments for people that are insulin dependent require multiple insulin
injections, sometimes with an insulin pump, coupled with regular blood glucose monitoring …

Current progress in stem cell therapy for type 1 diabetes mellitus

S Chen, K Du, C Zou - Stem cell research & therapy, 2020 - Springer
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is the most common chronic autoimmune disease in young
patients and is characterized by the loss of pancreatic β cells; as a result, the body becomes …

Transplantation of chemically induced pluripotent stem-cell-derived islets under abdominal anterior rectus sheath in a type 1 diabetes patient

S Wang, Y Du, B Zhang, G Meng, Z Liu, SY Liew… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
We report the 1-year results from one patient as the preliminary analysis of a first-in-human
phase I clinical trial (ChiCTR2300072200) assessing the feasibility of autologous …

Generation of pluripotent stem cells from patients with type 1 diabetes

R Maehr, S Chen, M Snitow, T Ludwig… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is the result of an autoimmune destruction of pancreatic β cells. The
cellular and molecular defects that cause the disease remain unknown. Pluripotent cells …

Stage-specific signaling through TGFβ family members and WNT regulates patterning and pancreatic specification of human pluripotent stem cells

MC Nostro, F Sarangi, S Ogawa, A Holtzinger… - …, 2011 - journals.biologists.com
The generation of insulin-producing β-cells from human pluripotent stem cells is dependent
on efficient endoderm induction and appropriate patterning and specification of this germ …

Efficient generation of hepatocyte-like cells from human induced pluripotent stem cells

Z Song, J Cai, Y Liu, D Zhao, J Yong, S Duo, X Song… - Cell research, 2009 - nature.com
Human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are similar to embryonic stem (ES) cells, and
can proliferate intensively and differentiate into a variety of cell types. However, the hepatic …

Differentiated human stem cells resemble fetal, not adult, β cells

S Hrvatin, CW O'Donnell, F Deng… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) have the potential to generate any human cell type,
and one widely recognized goal is to make pancreatic β cells. To this end, comparisons …

Generation of pancreatic β cells for treatment of diabetes: advances and challenges

HM Shahjalal, A Abdal Dayem, KM Lim, T Jeon… - Stem cell research & …, 2018 - Springer
Human embryonic stem cells (hESC) and induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) are
considered attractive sources of pancreatic β cells and islet organoids. Recently, several …

Stem cells and regenerative medicine: myth or reality of the 21th century

JF Stoltz, N de Isla, YP Li, D Bensoussan… - Stem cells …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Since the 1960s and the therapeutic use of hematopoietic stem cells of bone marrow origin,
there has been an increasing interest in the study of undifferentiated progenitors that have …

Concise review: Induced pluripotent stem cells versus embryonic stem cells: close enough or yet too far apart?

J Bilic, JCI Belmonte - Stem cells, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The state of a cell is defined by the genes it transcribes and the epigenetic landscape that
regulates their expression. Pluripotent cells have markedly different epigenetic signatures …