title: [Human pancreatic stem cell and diabetes cell therapy].
abstract: Cell therapy offers today important perspectives for the treatment of type 1 diabetes. The current utilization of primary human islets of Langerhans nevertheless forbids all hope of developing this treatment on a large scale. The recent description of the persistence of stem cells capable of proliferating and differentiating in the adult pancreas offers an attractive alternative for the production in vitro of homologous insulin-secreting cells. We first reproduced in vitro from human islet preparations the proliferation of ductal epithelial structures and their progressive organization. Thereafter, we focused on the description of a reproducible source of human ductal cells by the transdifferentiation of exocrine preparations. More recently we described in these exocrine derived ductal cells the the expression the of insulin promoter factor-1 (IPF-1/otherwise known as PDX-1), a transcription factor essential for the differentiation of ductal cells into endocrine cells during both development and pancreatic regeneration. If the proliferation and differentiation of these cells is confirmed, this approach could lead to the description of an abundant source of human pancreatic stem cells for the production ex vivo of human insulin secreting cells and may even allow autologous cell therapy, in the absence of immunosuppression.
authors.affiliation: Praticien Hospitalio-Universitaire, UPRES 1048 de Université de Lille 2 et Service de Chirurgie Générale et Endocrinienne, Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire de Lille, 1 Place de Verdun-F59037 Lille.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pattou
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kerr-Conte
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gmyr
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Vandewalle
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Vantyghem
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lecomte-Houcke
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Proye
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lefebvre
mesh_terms: D018929:Cell Culture Techniques / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D002455:Cell Division; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000628:therapy*; D005544:Forecasting; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins; D006801:Humans; D016381:Islets of Langerhans Transplantation / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D015534:Trans-Activators / Q000502:physiology; D014158:Transcription, Genetic / Q000502:physiology; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D018398:Homeodomain Proteins; D015534:Trans-Activators; C084010:pancreatic and duodenal homeobox 1 protein