Transplantation of insulin-producing cells from umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells for the treatment of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats

BACKGROUND: Although diabetes mellitus (DM) can be treated with islet transplantation, a scarcity of donors limits the utility of this technique. This study investigated whether human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from umbilical cord could be induced efficiently to differentiate into insulin-produci...

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Main Authors: Tsai, Pei-Jiun, Wang, Hwai-Shi, Shyr, Yi-Ming, Weng, Zen-Chung, Tai, Ling-Chen, Shyu, Jia-Fwu, Chen, Tien-Hua
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3404952/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22545626
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1423-0127-19-47
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