Insulin-producing organoids engineered from islet and amniotic epithelial cells to treat diabetes

Fanny Lebreton, Vanessa Lavallard, Kevin Bellofatto, Romain Bonnet, Charles H. Wassmer, Lisa Perez, Vakhtang Kalandadze, Antonia Follenzi, Michel Boulvain, Julie Kerr-Conte, David J. Goodman, Domenico Bosco, Thierry Berney, Ekaterine Berishvili

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Abstract

Maintaining long-term euglycemia after intraportal islet transplantation is hampered by the considerable islet loss in the peri-transplant period attributed to inflammation, ischemia and poor angiogenesis. Here, we show that viable and functional islet organoids can be successfully generated from dissociated islet cells (ICs) and human amniotic epithelial cells (hAECs). Incorporation of hAECs into islet organoids markedly enhances engraftment, viability and graft function in a mouse type 1 diabetes model. Our results demonstrate that the integration of hAECs into islet cell organoids has great potential in the development of cell-based therapies for type 1 diabetes. Engineering of functional mini-organs using this strategy will allow the exploration of more favorable implantation sites, and can be expanded to unlimited (stem-cell-derived or xenogeneic) sources of insulin-producing cells.

Lingua originaleInglese
Numero di articolo4491
RivistaNature Communications
Volume10
Numero di pubblicazione1
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 1 dic 2019

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