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. 2019 Aug;68(8):1541-1543.
doi: 10.2337/db19-0367.

Islets for Research: Nothing Is Perfect, but We Can Do Better

Rita Nano  1 , Julie A Kerr-Conte  2 , Domenico Bosco  3 , Marie Karlsson  4 , Vanessa Lavallard  3 , Raffaella Melzi  1 , Valery Gmyr  2 , Alessia Mercalli  1 , Thierry Berney  3 , François Pattou  2 , Olle Korsgren  4 , Lorenzo Piemonti  5
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Islets for Research: Nothing Is Perfect, but We Can Do Better

Rita Nano et al. Diabetes. 2019 Aug.

Abstract

In December 2018, Diabetes and Diabetologia began requiring authors of papers reporting data obtained from studies on human islets to report critical characteristics of the human islets used for research. The islet community was asked to provide feedback on it. Here is the contribution by the European Consortium for Islet Transplantation.

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