Published in:
01-02-2019 | Editorial
A call for improved reporting of human islet characteristics in research articles
Authors:
Vincent Poitout, Leslie S. Satin, Steven E. Kahn, Doris A. Stoffers, Piero Marchetti, Maureen Gannon, C. Bruce Verchere, Kevan C. Herold, Martin G. Myers Jr, Sally M. Marshall
Published in:
Diabetologia
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Issue 2/2019
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Excerpt
The increased availability of isolated human islets for diabetes research and the implementation of islet distribution programmes in several countries worldwide have been driving forces behind the rapidly expanding number of scientific reports on studies using human islets. In this issue of
Diabetologia, Hart and Powers [
1] not only review the progress made in human islet research, made possible through their greater availability, but also identify the challenges associated with their use. These include the wide functional heterogeneity observed between islet preparations and the highly variable (and often inadequate) reporting of human islet characteristics in the scientific literature. …
