Review Article

β-Cell Generation: Can Rodent Studies Be Translated to Humans?

Table 2

Potential sources of de novo β-cells among differentiated adult MSC: BM: bone marrow, AT: adipose tissue; UCB: umbilical cord blood.

RodentHuman
in vitroin vivoin vitroin vivo

Pancreatic
 Islet-(derived) MSC??+?
 Exocrine-(derived) MSC??−/+?

Extra-pancreatic
 BM-MSC
 AT-MSC
 UCB-MSC
+−/+−/+