Point: Steady progress and current challenges in clinical islet transplantation

Diabetes Care

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1563-1569

  Mineo, Davide ^a,b   Pileggi, Antonello ^a   Alejandro, Rodolfo ^a   Ricordi, Camillo ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN;

AUTOIMMUNITY; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOMODULATION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PREDICTION;

C-PEPTIDE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; HUMANS; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68149091962     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc09-0490     Document Type: Editorial

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