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Transplantation of Pancreatic Islets Into the Kidney Capsule of Diabetic Mice
Published on: October 31, 2007
Pancreas transplantation
1Department of Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgery, The Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. steve.white@nuth.nhs.uk
Abstract:
Over the last 5 years, there has been a resumed interest in treating diabetes by transplantation, particularly islet transplantation. However, despite advances being reported in Canada and the US, replication in the UK has been much more difficult. At present there is still only one treatment that can consistently reverse insulin independence in the long-term and that is whole pancreas transplantation. Long-term normoglycaemia has beneficial effects on preventing and ameliorating the secondary complications of diabetes and will be discussed.
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