title: Current progress and perspectives in cell therapy for diabetes mellitus.
abstract: Recent advances of cell transplantation and tissue engineering are remarkable. And also the diabetic treatment using pancreatic beta cells have performed great advances. Even clinical islet transplantation has been considered a common curative treatment for diabetes mellitus in the place of an experimental treatment. Still more the lack of donor's organ as a worst problem of transplantation will be overcome by using the beta cells produced in vitro culture. Therefore diabetes mellitus will be closed to cure in the near future.
authors.affiliation: Institute for the Frontier Medical Science, Kyoto University. miyamoto-m@nms.ac.jp
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Miyamoto
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D021522:Bioartificial Organs; D064987:Cell- and Tissue-Based Therapy; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000628:therapy*; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian / Q000166:cytology; D006801:Humans; D016381:Islets of Langerhans Transplantation / Q000379:methods; D019397:Pancreas, Artificial; D012038:Regeneration; D013234:Stem Cells; D023822:Tissue Engineering