Advances in islet transplantation and the UK islet transplant consortium
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Islet transplantation has surpassed whole pancreas transplantation as a cure for diabetes mellitus since the success of the Edmonton group. It is a safer procedure and requires minimal surgical intervention, yet offers excellent results in terms of achieving insulin independence. It also offers a more physiological insulin profile than current insulin replacement therapy. The UK Islet Transplant Consortium, founded by Diabetes UK, is in the process of establishing a programme of clinical islet transplantation in the UK. The immunosuppression required to protect islet grafts remains a threat to the long‐term health of transplant recipients and research into the possibility of circumventing the need for immunosuppression continues. The main areas under investigation include immunoisolation of islet grafts, HLA class II mismatching between donor and recipient, destruction of immune‐reactive dendritic cells in culture, in vitro pre‐treatment of islets to reduce their immunogenicity and genetic modification of islets to produce localised immunosuppression and prevent the release of MHC molecules. Because of the shortage of donors, researchers are looking toward alternative sources of glucose‐responsive insulin‐secreting tissue. Xenotransplantation would offer an attractive solution if the risk of transferring animal endogenous retroviruses can be eliminated. The expansion of mature beta‐cells, beta‐cell progenitors in pancreatic ducts or embryonic stem cells into viable tissue for transplant is also being researched in the hope of finding a solution for the tissue shortage issue. Encouraging advances have been made in many of these areas, creating a sense of anticipation and excitement for the future. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".