Nn. Skaletskii et al., TRANSPLANTATION OF CULTURED FETAL PANCREATIC-ISLET CELLS IN THE TREATMENT OF INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETES-MELLITUS, Bulletin of experimental biology and medicine, 117(4), 1994, pp. 357-364
Fetal tissue grafting has been used in Russia for some 15 years for th
e treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus with complications.
The use of cultured islet cells from the fetal human, as well. as ani
mal, pancreas has been successful even in the absence of immunosuppres
sion. This review concerns only studies carried out in the CIS and the
rest of the former USSR. It describes the treatment of complications
of diabetes mellitus (retinopathy, nephropathy, polyneuropathy), the t
reatment of diabetes mellitus in children and pregnant women, and the
preparation of patients with diabetes mellitus for surgery.