Adipose stem cells from chronic pancreatitis patients improve mouse and human islet survival and function

Abstract Background Chronic pancreatitis has surgical options including total pancreatectomy to control pain. To avoid surgical diabetes, the explanted pancreas can have islets harvested and transplanted. Immediately following total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplantation (TP-IAT), many islet...

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Main Authors: Lili Song, Zhen Sun, Do-sung Kim, Wenyu Gou, Charlie Strange, Huansheng Dong, Wanxing Cui, Gary Gilkeson, Katherine A. Morgan, David B. Adams, Hongjun Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-08-01
Series:Stem Cell Research & Therapy
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13287-017-0627-x