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Stem cell approaches for diabetes: towards beta cell replacement

Stem cells hold great promise for pancreatic beta cell replacement therapy for diabetes. In type 1 diabetes, beta cells are mostly destroyed, and in type 2 diabetes beta cell numbers are reduced by 40% to 60%. The proof-of-principle that cellular transplants of pancreatic islets, which contain insul...

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Autores principales: Weir, Gordon C, Cavelti-Weder, Claudia, Bonner-Weir, Susan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3239236/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21951399
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gm277