Navigating two roads to glucose normalization in diabetes: automated insulin delivery devices and cell therapy

E Latres, DA Finan, JL Greenstein, A Kowalski… - Cell metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
Incredible strides have been made since the discovery of insulin almost 100 years ago.
Insulin formulations have improved dramatically, glucose levels can be measured …

Clinical islet transplantation: is the future finally now?

AR Pepper, A Bruni, AMJ Shapiro - Current opinion in organ …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Clinical islet transplantation: is the future finally now? : Current Opinion in Organ
Transplantation Clinical islet transplantation: is the future finally now? : Current Opinion in …

A programmable synthetic lineage-control network that differentiates human IPSCs into glucose-sensitive insulin-secreting beta-like cells

P Saxena, BC Heng, P Bai, M Folcher… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Synthetic biology has advanced the design of standardized transcription control devices that
programme cellular behaviour. By coupling synthetic signalling cascade-and transcription …

Report of the key opinion leaders meeting on stem cell-derived beta cells

J Odorico, J Markmann, D Melton, J Greenstein… - …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Beta cell replacement has the potential to restore euglycemia in patients with insulin-
dependent diabetes. Although great progress has been made in establishing allogeneic …

Transplantation of human pancreatic endoderm cells reverses diabetes post transplantation in a prevascularized subcutaneous site

AR Pepper, R Pawlick, A Bruni, J Wink, Y Rafiei… - Stem cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Beta-cell replacement therapy is an effective means to restore glucose homeostasis in select
humans with autoimmune diabetes. The scarcity of" healthy" human donor pancreata …

The quest to make fully functional human pancreatic beta cells from embryonic stem cells: climbing a mountain in the clouds

JD Johnson - Diabetologia, 2016 - Springer
The production of fully functional insulin-secreting cells to treat diabetes is a major goal of
regenerative medicine. In this article, I review progress towards this goal over the last 15 …

Sex Differences in Maturation of Human Embryonic Stem Cell–Derived β Cells in Mice

N Saber, JE Bruin, S O'Dwyer, H Schuster… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Pancreatic progenitors derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are now in
clinical trials for insulin replacement in patients with type 1 diabetes. Animal studies indicate …

β cell replacement therapy: the next 10 years

C Schuetz, T Anazawa, SE Cross, L Labriola… - …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
β cell replacement with either pancreas or islet transplantation has progressed immensely
over the last decades with current 1-and 5-year insulin independence rates of approximately …

Exendin-4 enhances the differentiation of Wharton's jelly mesenchymal stem cells into insulin-producing cells through activation of various β-cell markers

DH Kassem, MM Kamal, AELG El-Kholy… - Stem Cell Research & …, 2016 - Springer
Background Diabetes mellitus is a devastating metabolic disease. Generation of insulin-
producing cells (IPCs) from stem cells, especially from Wharton's jelly mesenchymal stem …

Hypothyroidism impairs human stem cell–derived pancreatic progenitor cell maturation in mice

JE Bruin, N Saber, S O'Dwyer, JK Fox, M Mojibian… - Diabetes, 2016 - Am Diabetes Assoc
Pancreatic progenitors derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are a potential
source of transplantable cells for treating diabetes and are currently being tested in clinical …