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Type 1 diabetes: treat the symptoms or cure the disease?

Author(s) -

Aileen King,

Zheng-liang Zhi,

Shanta J. Persaud,

Peter M. Jones

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

the biochemist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.126

H-Index - 7

eISSN - 1740-1194

pISSN - 0954-982X

DOI - 10.1042/bio03804005

Subject(s) - biocompatible material , islet , medicine , type 2 diabetes , disease , diabetes mellitus , transplantation , type 1 diabetes , graft versus host disease , intensive care medicine , surgery , endocrinology , biomedical engineering

Islet transplantation has shown great promise as an experimental treatment for Type 1 diabetes, but current clinical protocols have problems with long-term graft survival when islets are transplanted into an inflammatory, immunogenic host environment. Encapsulation strategies designed to present a biocompatible barrier between graft and host may offer solutions to these problems.

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