title: Insulin-producing cells derived from stem/progenitor cells: therapeutic implications for diabetes mellitus.
abstract: One of the most common diseases of the pancreas is diabetes mellitus. The current treatment of exogenous insulin supply is not fully capable of achieving tight control of glucose regulation, leading to long-term complications. Hence, recent success in islet transplantation-based therapies for diabetes mellitus and the extreme shortage of pancreatic islets have motivated recent efforts to develop renewable sources of islet-replacement tissue. Of clinical interest, I review the recent progress on stem cell-based strategies for diabetes in view of regenerative medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-1 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan. horiy@med.kobe-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Yuichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hori
mesh_terms: D000071916:AC133 Antigen; D000818:Animals; D015703:Antigens, CD / Q000378:metabolism; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000628:therapy*; D053595:Embryonic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D050417:Insulin-Secreting Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D051379:Mice; D010179:Pancreas / Q000166:cytology; D010455:Peptides / Q000378:metabolism; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*
chemical_list: D000071916:AC133 Antigen; D015703:Antigens, CD; D006023:Glycoproteins; D010455:Peptides