Pancreatic Islet Survival and Engraftment Is Promoted by Culture on Functionalized Spider Silk Matrices.

Transplantation of pancreatic islets is one approach for treatment of diabetes, however, hampered by the low availability of viable islets. Islet isolation leads to disruption of the environment surrounding the endocrine cells, which contributes to eventual cell death. The reestablishment of this en...

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Main Authors: Ulrika Johansson, Massimiliano Ria, Karin Åvall, Nancy Dekki Shalaly, Sergei V Zaitsev, Per-Olof Berggren, My Hedhammar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4474965?pdf=render