A research group led by Professor Masafumi Goto at New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University, Professor Susumu Satomi at Division of Advanced Surgical Science and Technology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine and Professor Michiaki Unno at Division of Gastroenterological Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine has successfully increased insulin productivity by the pancreatic islet autotransplantation for a patient after undergoing an emergency surgery to remove the whole pancreas due to acute peritonitis caused by pancreatic arteriovenous malformation.

 The pancreatic islet autotransplantation is an ultimately-advanced regeneration technology established in order to prevent the development of diabetes by extracting insulin producing cells from pancreas to be generally discarded and transplanting them into the patients. This is the 5th case performed in Japan in which a satisfactory increase of insulin productivity has been reported for the first time.

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