Differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into β-cells: Potential and challenges

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 833-847

  Quiskamp, Nina ^a   Bruin, Jennifer E ^a   Kieffer, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

diabetes; hESC; iPSC; stem cell therapy; type 1 diabetes

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL ENGINEERING; CELL THERAPY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; IMMUNOGENICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN RELEASE; MICROENCAPSULATION; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; REVIEW; SAFETY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; METABOLISM; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PROCEDURES; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84983126565     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: 15321908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2015.10.011     Document Type: Review

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