| Literature DB >> 27313072 |
Sevim Kahraman1, Erin R Okawa1,2, Rohit N Kulkarni3,4.
Abstract
Diabetes is a progressive disease affecting millions of people worldwide. There are several medications and treatment options to improve the life quality of people with diabetes. One of the strategies for the treatment of diabetes could be the use of human pluripotent stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells. The recent advances in differentiation of stem cells into insulin-secreting beta-like cells in vitro make the transplantation of the stem cell-derived beta-like cells an attractive approach for treatment of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. While stem cell-derived beta-like cells provide an unlimited cell source for beta cell replacement therapies, these cells can also be used as a platform for drug screening or modeling diseases.Entities:
Keywords: Diabetes; Differentiation; Human pluripotent stem cells; Induced pluripotent stem cells; Pancreatic beta cells
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27313072 PMCID: PMC5877461 DOI: 10.1007/s11892-016-0764-0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Diab Rep ISSN: 1534-4827 Impact factor: 4.810