Seven Consecutive Successful Clinical Islet Isolations With Pancreatic Ductal Injection

Authors: Matsumoto, Shinichi; Noguichi, Hirofumi; Shimoda, Masayuki; Ikemoto, Tetsuya; Naziruddin, Bashoo; Jackson, Andrew; Tamura, Yoshiko; Olson, Greg; Fujita, Yasutaka; Chujo, Daisuke; Takita, Morihito; Kobayashi, Naoya; Onaca, Nicholas; Levy, Marlon

Source: Cell Transplantation, Volume 19, Number 3, 2010 , pp. 291-297(7)

Publisher: Cognizant Communication Corporation

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Inconsistent islet isolation is one of the issues of clinical islet transplantation. In the current study, we applied ductal injection to improve the consistency of islet isolation. Seven islet isolations were performed with the ductal injection of ET-Kyoto solution (DI group) and eight islet isolations were performed without the ductal injection (standard group) using brain-dead donor pancreata. Isolated islets were evaluated based on the Edmonton protocol for transplantation. The DI group had significantly higher islet yields (588,566 ± 64,319 vs. 354,836 ± 89,649 IE, p < 0.01) and viability (97.3 ± 1.2% vs. 92.6 ± 1.2%, p < 0.02) compared with the standard group. All seven isolated islet preparations in the DI group (100%), versus only three out of eight isolated islet preparations (38%) in the standard group met transplantation criteria. The islets from the DI group were transplanted into three type 1 diabetic patients and all three patients became insulin independent. Ductal injection significantly improved quantity and quality of isolated islets and resulted in high success rate of clinical islet transplantation. This simple modification will reduce the risk of failure of clinical islet isolation.

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Keywords: Ductal injection; Islet isolation; Islet transplantation; Brain-dead donor; ET-Kyoto solution

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3727/096368909X481773

Affiliations: 1: Baylor Research Institute, Fort Worth, TX, USA

Publication date: 2010-03-01

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Cell Transplantation publishes original, peer-reviewed research and review articles on the subject of cell transplantation and its application to human diseases. To ensure high-quality contributions from all areas of transplantation, separate section editors and editorial boards have been established. Articles deal with a wide range of topics including physiological, medical, preclinical, tissue engineering, and device-oriented aspects of transplantation of nervous system, endocrine, growth factor-secreting, bone marrow, epithelial, endothelial, and genetically engineered cells, among others. Basic clinical studies and immunological research papers are also featured. To provide complete coverage of this revolutionary field, Cell Transplantation will report on relevant technological advances, and ethical and regulatory considerations of cell transplants. Cell Transplantation is now an Open Access journal starting with volume 18 in 2009, and therefore there will be an inexpensive publication charge, which is dependent on the number of pages, in addition to the charge for color figures. This will allow work to be disseminated to a wider audience and also entitle the corresponding author to a free PDF, as well as prepublication of an unedited version of the manuscript.

Seven Consecutive Successful Clinical Islet Isolations With Pancreatic Ductal Injection

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