Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33454830›Full record

ReviewDiabetologia2021

The promise of stem cell-derived islet replacement therapy.

Douglas Melton

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Review in Diabetologia, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
55citing papers in PubMed
18.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

55 citing papers in PubMed, 92 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Douglas MeltonDepartment of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard College and Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA. dmelton@harvard.edu.
Harvard Stem Cell Institute · US

Funding

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Present-day treatments for people that are insulin dependent require multiple insulin injections, sometimes with an insulin pump, coupled with regular blood glucose monitoring. The availability of modified insulins, each with peaks of activity at varying times, has improved diabetes management. On the other hand, there have been impressive results leading to insulin independence by transplantation of cadaveric islets coupled with immune suppression. This review focuses on the possibility of treating diabetes with cellular transplants, specifically with the use of pluripotent stem cells, to produce a virtually unlimited and uniform supply of human islet-like clusters by directed differentiation. Prospects for improving the in vitro differentiation of human endocrine cells for the study of endocrine function and their possible clinical uses are also discussed.

Indexed as

Islets of Langerhans TransplantationAnimalsCell DifferentiationDiabetes MellitusHumansIslets of LangerhansPluripotent Stem CellsBeta cellsES cellsImmune protectionIn vitro differentiationiPS cellsMaturationReviewStem cellsTransplantationType 1 diabetes

Identifiers

PMID33454830
PMCPMC8012315
OpenAlexW3125204220

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