Co-encapsulation of bioengineered IGF-II-producing cells and pancreatic islets: effect on beta-cell survival
- 13 January 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Gene Therapy
- Vol. 18 (6), 539-545
- https://doi.org/10.1038/gt.2010.166
Abstract
Insulin-like growth factor-II (IGF-II) has been shown to promote pancreatic β-cell survival. We evaluated the effect of co-encapsulating islets and bioengineered IGF-II-producing cells on islet cell survival. IGF-II or green fast protein (GFP) genes were transferred into TM4 cells, and purified using a neomycin resistance gene, leading to pure cell cultures (TM4-IGF-II or TM4-GFP) with a stable overexpression of the transferred gene. Islets were co-encapsulated with TM4-IGF-II or TM4-GFP, or encapsulated alone in alginate microcapsules. Rat and mouse islet cell survival was studied in vitro and in vivo, respectively. After 12 days in culture, islet viability (dual staining, acridine orange/propidium iodide) was 83% with TM4-IGF-II, compared with 51% (PPP=0.023), or with TM4-GFP (P=0.048). In conclusion, the co-encapsulation of islets with bioengineered IGF-II-producing cells promotes islet cell survival.This publication has 33 references indexed in Scilit:
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