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

Rita Nano; Julie A. Kerr-Conte; Domenico Bosco; Marie Karlsson; Vanessa Lavallard; Raffaella Melzi; Valery Gmyr; Alessia Mercalli; Thierry Berney; François Pattou; Olle Korsgren; Lorenzo Piemonti

doi:10.2337/db19-0367

Perspectives in Diabetes

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

Rita Nano¹,
Julie A. Kerr-Conte²,
Domenico Bosco³,
Marie Karlsson⁴,
Vanessa Lavallard³,
Raffaella Melzi¹,
Valery Gmyr²,
Alessia Mercalli¹,
Thierry Berney³,
François Pattou²,
Olle Korsgren⁴ and
Lorenzo Piemonti¹ ⇑

¹Diabetes Research Institute, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
²European Genomic Institute for Diabetes, Université de Lille, INSERM, CHU de Lille Faculté de Médecine, Lille, France
³Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
⁴Akademiska sjukhuset, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

Corresponding author: Lorenzo Piemonti, piemonti.lorenzo{at}hsr.it

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

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.

Received April 9, 2019.
Accepted May 21, 2019.

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