On the cover: A microscopic image of an islet graft in the C57BL/6 mouse liver 6 h after syngeneic intraportal islet transplantation. Brown indicates islet β-cells stained with anti-insulin antibody. Blue indicates nuclei stained with hematoxylin. Image courtesy of Jingjing Wang, Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC. Her article, “α-1 Antitrypsin Enhances Islet Engraftment by Suppression of Instant Blood-Mediated Inflammatory Reaction,” appears in this issue of Diabetes (p. 970).


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