Type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus: A review on current treatment approach and gene therapy as potential intervention

SY Tan, JLM Wong, YJ Sim, SS Wong… - Diabetes & metabolic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus is a serious and lifelong condition commonly
characterised by abnormally elevated blood glucose levels due to a failure in insulin …

[HTML][HTML] Human beta cell mass and function in diabetes: Recent advances in knowledge and technologies to understand disease pathogenesis

C Chen, CM Cohrs, J Stertmann, R Bozsak… - Molecular metabolism, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Plasma insulin levels are predominantly the product of the morphological mass
of insulin producing beta cells in the pancreatic islets of Langerhans and the functional …

Acquisition of dynamic function in human stem cell-derived β cells

L Velazco-Cruz, J Song, KG Maxwell… - Stem cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Recent advances in human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) differentiation protocols have
generated insulin-producing cells resembling pancreatic β cells. While these stem cell …

Human hypoimmune primary pancreatic islets avoid rejection and autoimmunity and alleviate diabetes in allogeneic humanized mice

X Hu, C Gattis, AG Olroyd, AM Friera, K White… - Science translational …, 2023 - science.org
Transplantation of allogeneic pancreatic donor islets has successfully been performed in
selected patients with difficult-to-control insulin-dependent diabetes and impaired …

Screening out irrelevant cell-based models of disease

P Horvath, N Aulner, M Bickle, AM Davies… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2016 - nature.com
The common and persistent failures to translate promising preclinical drug candidates into
clinical success highlight the limited effectiveness of disease models currently used in drug …

Pancreatic islet transplantation in humans: recent progress and future directions

MR Rickels, RP Robertson - Endocrine reviews, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Pancreatic islet transplantation has become an established approach to β-cell replacement
therapy for the treatment of insulin-deficient diabetes. Recent progress in techniques for islet …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering human stem cell-derived islets to evade immune rejection and promote localized immune tolerance

D Gerace, Q Zhou, JHR Kenty, A Veres, E Sintov… - Cell Reports …, 2023 - cell.com
Immunological protection of transplanted stem cell-derived islet (SC-islet) cells is yet to be
achieved without chronic immunosuppression or encapsulation. Existing genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell transcriptome profiling reveals β cell maturation in stem cell-derived islets after transplantation

P Augsornworawat, KG Maxwell, L Velazco-Cruz… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Human pluripotent stem cells differentiated to insulin-secreting β cells (SC-β cells) in islet
organoids could provide an unlimited cell source for diabetes cell replacement therapy …

A nanofibrous encapsulation device for safe delivery of insulin-producing cells to treat type 1 diabetes

X Wang, KG Maxwell, K Wang, DT Bowers… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Transplantation of stem cell–derived β (SC-β) cells represents a promising therapy for type 1
diabetes (T1D). However, the delivery, maintenance, and retrieval of these cells remain a …