TY - JOUR ID - 80168 TI - Normal Insulin Secretion from Immune-Protected Islets of Langerhans by PEGylation and Encapsulation in the Alginate-Chitosan-PEG JO - Iranian Journal of Biotechnology JA - IJB LA - en SN - 1728-3043 AU - Najafikhah, Nahid AU - Hashemi-Najafabadi, Sameereh AU - Zahediasl, Saleh AU - Nabavimanesh, Mohammad Mahdi AU - Farrokhfall, Khadijeh AD - Biomedical Engineering Department, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. AD - Endocrine Research Center, Research Institute of Endocrine Sciences, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. AD - Medical Toxicology and Drug Abuse Research Center (MTDR C), Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran. Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 16 IS - 4 SP - 258 EP - 263 KW - alginate KW - Type I diabetes mellitusAlginate KW - Chitosan KW - Type I diabetes mellitus KW - islets of langerhans KW - insulin DO - 10.21859/ijb.1669 N2 - Background: Pancreatic islet transplantation is one of the most promising strategies for treating patients with type I diabetes mellitus.Objective: We aimed to assess the immunoisolation properties of the multilayer encapsulated islets using alginate-chitosan-PEG for immunoprotection and insulin secretion from the encapsulated islets induced under different glucose concentrations in vitro.Materials and Methods: In this study, the islets were isolated from Wistar rats. The biological function (insulin secretion) of the immunoisolated islets following to PEGylation and encapsulation in the alginate-chitosan-PEG, separately, in addition to their immuno-protection in a co-culturing with the lymphocytes isolated from the male C57BL/6 mice were investigated, respectively.Results: Alginate-chitosan-PEG decreased IL-2 secretion from the lymphocytes co-cultured with islets. Also, insulin secretion from the encapsulated and PEGylated groups was stimulated by glucose (i.e., 5.6 and 16.7 mM of glucose, respectively); showed insulin secretion similar to the naked islets, without coating, after 30 and 60 min of incubation.Conclusion: In conclusion, encapsulation and PEGylation have no negative effect on the insulin secretion and glucose sensitivity of the islets for all of the groups. Also, encapsulation decreased IL-2 secretion from the lymphocytes. UR - https://www.ijbiotech.com/article_80168.html L1 - https://www.ijbiotech.com/article_80168_644cffa3b73a8341d5d2a810b2e2ddb5.pdf ER -