Tissue engineering and 3D printing of bioartificial pancreas for regenerative medicine in diabetes

AAP Soetedjo, JM Lee, HH Lau, GL Goh, J An… - Trends in Endocrinology …, 2021 - cell.com
Diabetes is a severe chronic disease worldwide. In various types of diabetes, the pancreatic
beta cells fail to secrete sufficient insulin, at some point, to regulate blood glucose levels …

[HTML][HTML] The Role of the Pancreatic Extracellular Matrix as a Tissue Engineering Support for the Bioartificial Pancreas

T Santos da Silva, LN Silva-Júnior, BO Horvath-Pereira… - Biomimetics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is a chronic condition primarily managed with insulin
replacement, leading to significant treatment costs. Complications include vasculopathy …

Microvascular fragment spheroids: Three-dimensional vascularization units for tissue engineering and regeneration

L Nalbach, D Müller, S Wrublewsky… - Journal of Tissue …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Adipose tissue-derived microvascular fragments (MVF) serve as vascularization units in
tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Because a three-dimensional cellular …

Role of pericytes in diabetic angiogenesis

T Wang, G Zang, L Zhang, Z Sun, J Liu… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
In the context of diabetes mellitus, various pathological changes cause tissue ischemia and
hypoxia, which can lead to the compensatory formation of neovascularization. However …

Erythropoietin accelerates the revascularization of transplanted pancreatic islets

MM Menger, L Nalbach, LP Roma… - British journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Purpose Pancreatic islet transplantation is a promising therapeutic
approach for Type 1 diabetes. A major prerequisite for the survival of grafted islets is a rapid …

A Novel ex vivo Method for Investigating Vascularization of Transplanted Islets

R Dolan, AO Lampejo, J Santini-González… - Journal of vascular …, 2022 - karger.com
Revascularization of transplanted pancreatic islets is critical for survival and treatment of
type 1 diabetes. Questions concerning how islets influence local microvascular networks …