the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.G1999054301);the High-tech Research Program(863 Program)of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(Grant No.2002AA216161);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.39970363);the Emphasis Foundation of Ministry of Education of China(2003-2005);the Emphasis Foundation of Shaanxi Province(Grant No.2002K01-G3);the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(Grant No.04011471);the Science Foundation of Educational office of Guangdong Province(Grant No.2003-1009)
The major obstacle in using pancreatic islet transplantation to cure type I and some type II diabetes is the shortage of the donors. One of ways to overcome such obstacle is to isolate and clone pancreatic stem cells ...