Background. Sertoli cells (SCs) provide an immunoprotective environment to pancreatic islet grafts for treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes. Aim of this work was to verify whether intraperitoneal graft of SCs, enveloped in barium alginate-based microcapsules, would reverse overt spontaneous diabetes in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice by eliciting generation of newly formed functional islets β-cells. Methods. Microcapsules were prepared, according to our method, by a mono air-jet device system and thereafter examined as far as (a) SC morphology by light microscopy; (b) SC viability by fluorescence microscopy; (c) SC in vitro function; and (d) SC in vivo function, as quoted by diabetes reversal in the NOD mice, were concerned. Results. SCs containing microcapsules exhibited excellent morphology, viability, and function, and when grafted into the NOD's, they induced stable reversion of the disease in 81% of the cases.

Xenograft of microencapsulated sertoli cells reverses T1DM in NOD mice by inducing neogenesis of beta-cells

NASTRUZZI, Claudio;
2010

Abstract

Background. Sertoli cells (SCs) provide an immunoprotective environment to pancreatic islet grafts for treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes. Aim of this work was to verify whether intraperitoneal graft of SCs, enveloped in barium alginate-based microcapsules, would reverse overt spontaneous diabetes in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice by eliciting generation of newly formed functional islets β-cells. Methods. Microcapsules were prepared, according to our method, by a mono air-jet device system and thereafter examined as far as (a) SC morphology by light microscopy; (b) SC viability by fluorescence microscopy; (c) SC in vitro function; and (d) SC in vivo function, as quoted by diabetes reversal in the NOD mice, were concerned. Results. SCs containing microcapsules exhibited excellent morphology, viability, and function, and when grafted into the NOD's, they induced stable reversion of the disease in 81% of the cases.
2010
G., Luca; F., Fallarino; M., Calvitti; F., Mancuso; Nastruzzi, Claudio; I., Arato; G., Falabella; U., Grohmann; E., Becchetti; P., Puccetti; R., Calafiore
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