Fetal Islet Transplantation
. Ed(S): Formby, Bent; Jovanovic-Peterson, Lois; Peterson, C.M.
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Paperback. Editor(s): Formby, Bent; Jovanovic-Peterson, Lois; Peterson, C.M. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MFGM; MJCM; MJG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 11. Weight in Grams: 363.
Despite the advent of insulin for clinical use in 1922, our ability to control hypergly cemia and prevent the long term sequelae ofthe disease remains limited. Thus normalization of the milieu interieur with physiologic responses of insulin and metabolites remains an elusive but critically important goal. The developing endocrine pancreas provides a model system that speaks to many challenges of the transplantation biologist. Thus the attempt to of vascularization, growth and development, immunologic toler recapitulate the ontogeny ance, and glucose responsive insulin secretory capacity of fetal islet tissue provides a tantalizing possibility to replace insulin secreting tissue in persons with ... Read more
Despite the advent of insulin for clinical use in 1922, our ability to control hypergly cemia and prevent the long term sequelae ofthe disease remains limited. Thus normalization of the milieu interieur with physiologic responses of insulin and metabolites remains an elusive but critically important goal. The developing endocrine pancreas provides a model system that speaks to many challenges of the transplantation biologist. Thus the attempt to of vascularization, growth and development, immunologic toler recapitulate the ontogeny ance, and glucose responsive insulin secretory capacity of fetal islet tissue provides a tantalizing possibility to replace insulin secreting tissue in persons with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
191
Condition
New
Number of Pages
191
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461358169
SKU
V9781461358169
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