TY - JOUR
T1 - Insulin-producing organoids engineered from islet and amniotic epithelial cells to treat diabetes
AU - Lebreton, Fanny
AU - Lavallard, Vanessa
AU - Bellofatto, Kevin
AU - Bonnet, Romain
AU - Wassmer, Charles H.
AU - Perez, Lisa
AU - Kalandadze, Vakhtang
AU - Follenzi, Antonia
AU - Boulvain, Michel
AU - Kerr-Conte, Julie
AU - Goodman, David J.
AU - Bosco, Domenico
AU - Berney, Thierry
AU - Berishvili, Ekaterine
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Author(s).
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85072942228
U2 - 10.1038/s41467-019-12472-3
DO - 10.1038/s41467-019-12472-3
M3 - Article
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 10
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 4491
ER -