Metabolically phenotyped pancreatectomized patients as living donors for the study of islets in health and diabetes

• Main Authors: Marko Barovic (Author), Marius Distler (Author), Eyke Schöniger (Author), Nicole Radisch (Author), Daniela Aust (Author), Jürgen Weitz (Author), Mark Ibberson (Author), Anke M. Schulte (Author), Michele Solimena (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The availability of human pancreatic islets with characteristics closely resembling those present in vivo is instrumental for ex vivo studies in diabetes research. Scope of review: In this review we propose metabolically phenotyped surgical patients as a novel source of pancreatic tissue...