TRANSPLANTATION OF PANCREATIC-ISLET TISSUE AND CONTROL OF DIABETES-MELLITUS

  • 1 January 1978
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 1  (1) , 65-97
Abstract
Advances achieved in pancreatic islet cell transplantation in animals and man were discussed. In animals, the biochemical and structural changes present in experimentally induced diabetes mellitus was reversed in part or whole following transplantation. Fetal or neonatal pancreatic islet cell preparations were probably the most appropriate tissue types to employ in the human situation. The optimal conditions for their maintenance to allow this approach to the therapy of diabetes are being investigated.