Chinese doctors treated an end-stage type 2 diabetic patient by implanting islet tissue derived in vitro from his own endoderm stem cells. The patient has been insulin-independent for 33 months.

adr1an@programming.dev · 7 months ago

Chinese doctors treated an end-stage type 2 diabetic patient by implanting islet tissue derived in vitro from his own endoderm stem cells. The patient has been insulin-independent for 33 months.

Technus@lemmy.zip · 7 months ago

Percutaneous means “through the skin”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percutaneous

In general, percutaneous refers to the access modality of a medical procedure, whereby a medical device is introduced into a patient’s blood vessel via a needle stick.

ignirtoq@fedia.io · 7 months ago

Okay, through the skin, sure, but what about the other 4 words? They go in through the skin into a blood vessel… to where?

rishabh · edit-2 7 months ago

Percutaneous: means “through the skin”

Transhepatic: means “across the liver”

Portal vein: a major vein that carries blood from the intestines to the liver

Transplantation: surgical procedure involving the removal of an organ or tissue from one person (donor) and placing it in another person (recipient)

Just use LLM these days!

Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works · 7 months ago

Probably the leg bone, most things connect to it.

Chinese doctors treated an end-stage type 2 diabetic patient by implanting islet tissue derived in vitro from his own endoderm stem cells. The patient has been insulin-independent for 33 months.

Chinese doctors treated an end-stage type 2 diabetic patient by implanting islet tissue derived in vitro from his own endoderm stem cells. The patient has been insulin-independent for 33 months.

Treating a type 2 diabetic patient with impaired pancreatic islet function by personalized endoderm stem cell-derived islet tissue - Cell Discovery