Diabetes Therapy

Imaging success lends promise to reliability of islet transplant for diabetes patients

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, November 27th, 2006

Transplanting insulin-producing islets is a therapy that may hold the key to curing diabetes. A study led by several London, England researchers unlocks the currently limited ways to image the islet cells, offering a new window to examine ways of improving the transplantation procedure.

Dr. Joo Ho Tai, a postdoctoral fellow at Lawson Health Research Institute, coauthored the study with Robarts Scientist Dr. Paula Foster, which is published in the November issue of the journal Diabetes (Diabetes 55: 2931-2939, 2006). Tai and Foster, along with Robarts Scientist Dr. David White have successfully imaged islets using a clinical 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance...

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Source: Obesity and Diabetes Week (2006-11-27)

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