Microenvironmental Conditions to Support Formation of Metabolically Adequate Functional Beta Cell Mass by Human Islet Cell implants in the Omentum of Type 1 Diabetes Patients Vrije Universiteit Brussel
pancreas. The disease can be treated by insulin administration but
not cured. Replacement of the beta cell mass has the potential of a
cure if it establishes a metabolically adequate function. Intraportal
implants of islet cell isolates from donor pancreases can restore a
physiologically regulated insulin provision, but its functional beta cell
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