Functional beta-cell mass after transplantation of human fetal pancreatic cells: differentiation or proliferation?

Diabetes
G M BeattieA Hayek

Abstract

The scarcity of human adult islets available for transplantation in IDDM makes the use of human fetal pancreatic cells desirable. Human fetal pancreatic cells grow and differentiate after transplantation in nude mice. It is unclear whether proliferation of preexisting endocrine cells or differentiation of precursor cells is mainly responsible for the increased islet mass and if beta-cell enrichment before transplantation enhances the functional outcome of the graft. To answer these questions, we transplanted purified human fetal islets, islet-like cell clusters (ICCs), and fresh tissue under the kidney capsule of nude mice. Insulin content was highest in the fresh tissue but fell rapidly during culture as either fetal islets or ICCs. Although fetal islets contained fourfold more insulin than ICCs before transplantation, the insulin content of the resulting grafts was the same after 3 months in vivo. The degree of stimulation after glucose challenge was comparable; however, more tissue was needed to generate the fetal islets. Grafts of fresh tissue also had similar total insulin contents, but when normalized to DNA, insulin concentration was significantly higher in the grafts from cultured tissue. Moreover, there were distinct m...Continue Reading

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