Proceedings of the October 1994 symposium at Sansum Medical Research Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA, focus on the use of fetal islet tissue in controlling diabetes and repairing islets that have been damaged by autoimmune disease. Papers detail research on fetal islet growth, differentiation, immun
Proceedings of the October 1994 symposium at Sansum Medical Research Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA, focus on the use of fetal islet tissue in contro...
Despite the advent of insulin for clinical use in 1922, our ability to control hypergly- cemia and prevent the long term sequelae ofthe disease remains limited. Thus normalization of the milieu interieur with physiologic responses of insulin and metabolites remains an elusive but critically important goal. The developing endocrine pancreas provides a model system that speaks to many challenges of the transplantation biologist. Thus the attempt to of vascularization, growth and development, immunologic toler- recapitulate the ontogeny ance, and glucose responsive insulin secretory capacity of...
Despite the advent of insulin for clinical use in 1922, our ability to control hypergly- cemia and prevent the long term sequelae ofthe disease remain...
