Endothelial cells lining surfaces of donor islets promote a faster initial blood vessel formation after transplantation. The results are published in Diabetes in October 2011. Patients with type 1 diabetes lack insulin, as the majority of the pancreatic beta cells producing this vital hormone have been destroyed. Transplanting donor islets of Langerhans, built up primarily …

        Insulin shots for patients with type 1 diabetes can become history. A novel site to transplant donor islet of Langerhans may give a chance to cure patients’ own failing insulin production. When transplanted into the anterior chamber of the eye of a diabetic monkey, pancreatic islets survive and produce insulin, reducing …

DiabetesMines reports on InSight Technology on the 5th of July, 2011 The website DiabetesMines reports on the transplantation of pancreatic islet cells into the anterior chamber of the eye, being performed at the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) in Florida. Using the eye as a local transplantation site reduces the amount of insulin needed in diabetic …