Engineering islets from stem cells for advanced therapies of diabetes

J Siehler, AK Blöchinger, M Meier… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder that affects more than 460 million people
worldwide. Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is caused by autoimmune destruction of β-cells, whereas …

Human pluripotent stem cells to model islet defects in diabetes

D Balboa, DG Iworima, TJ Kieffer - Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Diabetes mellitus is characterized by elevated levels of blood glucose and is ultimately
caused by insufficient insulin production from pancreatic beta cells. Different research …

ZnT8 loss-of-function accelerates functional maturation of hESC-derived β cells and resists metabolic stress in diabetes

Q Ma, Y Xiao, W Xu, M Wang, S Li, Z Yang, M Xu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Human embryonic stem cell-derived β cells (SC-β cells) hold great promise for treatment of
diabetes, yet how to achieve functional maturation and protect them against metabolic …

Modeling monogenic diabetes using human ESCs reveals developmental and metabolic deficiencies caused by mutations in HNF1A

FL Cardenas-Diaz, C Osorio-Quintero… - Cell stem cell, 2019 - cell.com
Human monogenic diabetes, caused by mutations in genes involved in beta cell
development and function, has been a challenge to study because multiple mouse models …

Bioinformatics Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data Identifies Molecular Biomarkers Associated With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

V Alur, V Raju, B Vastrad, C Vastrad… - Clinical Medicine …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is the most common metabolic disorder. The
aim of the present investigation was to identify gene signature specific to T2DM. Methods …

Concise review: human pluripotent stem cells for the modeling of pancreatic β-cell pathology

D Balboa, J Saarimäki-Vire, T Otonkoski - Stem Cells, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Pancreatic β-cells are the only source of insulin. Disturbances in β-cell development or
function may thus result in insulin deficiency or excess, presenting as hyper-or …

Transcriptional landscape of myogenesis from human pluripotent stem cells reveals a key role of TWIST1 in maintenance of skeletal muscle progenitors

IY Choi, H Lim, HJ Cho, Y Oh, BK Chou, H Bai… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Generation of skeletal muscle cells with human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) opens new
avenues for deciphering essential, but poorly understood aspects of transcriptional …

Modeling different types of diabetes using human pluripotent stem cells

EM Abdelalim - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disease characterized by chronic hyperglycemia as a
result of progressive loss of pancreatic β cells, which could lead to several debilitating …

Beta‐cell replacement strategies for diabetes

TJ Kieffer, K Woltjen, K Osafune… - Journal of diabetes …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Diabetes is characterized by elevated levels of blood glucose as a result of insufficient
production of insulin from loss or dysfunction of pancreatic islet β‐cells. Here, we review …

From genetic association to molecular mechanisms for islet-cell dysfunction in type 2 diabetes

KK Mattis, AL Gloyn - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified over 400 signals robustly
associated with risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D). At the vast majority of these loci, the lead …