Raising Awareness: The Need to Promote Allocation of Pancreata From Rare Nondiabetic Donors With Pancreatic Islet Autoimmunity to Type 1 Diabetes Research

G W Burke 3rd; A L Posgai; C H Wasserfall; M A Atkinson; A Pugliese

doi:10.1111/ajt.13983

Raising Awareness: The Need to Promote Allocation of Pancreata From Rare Nondiabetic Donors With Pancreatic Islet Autoimmunity to Type 1 Diabetes Research

Am J Transplant. 2017 Jan;17(1):306-307. doi: 10.1111/ajt.13983. Epub 2016 Aug 24.

Authors

G W Burke 3rd^{1

2}, A L Posgai³, C H Wasserfall³, M A Atkinson³, A Pugliese^{1

4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL.
² Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL.
³ Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida Diabetes Institute, Gainesville, FL.
⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL.
⁵ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL.

No abstract available

Keywords: autoantibody; autoimmunity; basic (laboratory) research/science; clinical decision-making; diabetes: type 1; islet transplantation; organ procurement; organ procurement and allocation; pancreas/simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation; translational research/science.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Autoimmunity*
Awareness*
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / immunology*
Humans
Islets of Langerhans / immunology*
Islets of Langerhans Transplantation
Tissue Donors*

Grants and funding

R01 DK070011/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States