| 摘要 |
The present invention relates to a method for preparing pancreatic islet cells, and preferably pancreatic beta cells starting from progenitor cells o btained from the pancreas of an adult mammal. The invention also provides a method for isolating progenitor cells, and preferably beta cell progenitors, from the pancreas of an adult mammal. Other aspects of the invention compri se the pancreatic islet (beta) cells and the progenitor cells that can be ob tained with the present invention and their use, e.g. in diagnostic, therape utic or research applications.
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