The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sapienza Universitá Di Roma

University of Miami-diabetes Research Institute

University of Miami

Giacomo Lanzoni

Lola M Reid

Luca Inverardi

Yunfang Wang

Juan Dominguez-Bendala

David A Gerber

Domenico Alvaro

Vincenzo Cardinale

Eugenio Gaudio

Guido Carpino

Lola Mcadams Reid

A method of repairing diseased or dysfunctional pancreas or liver is provided. The method involves preparation of a suspension of stem cells and/or progenitor cells such as biliary tree stem cells, hepatic stem cells, pancreatic stem cells or their descendants, committed progenitor cells, from healthy tissue of the patient or of the biliary tree of a non-autologous donor and engrafting the cells into the wall of bile ducts near to the organ to be treated. The graft consists of stem cells or progenitors that are admixed with biomaterials and, optionally, with cytokines and/or native epithelial-mesenchymal cells appropriate for the maturational lineage stage of the cells to be engrafted. The cells are specifically introduced to the hepato-pancreatic common duct of the subject for treatment of pancreatic conditions or to the bile duct wall near to the liver for treatment of liver conditions and allowed to migrate to the pancreas or to the liver and expand and then rebuild part or the entirety of the diseased or dysfunctional organ.

Method of treating pancreatic and liver conditions by endoscopic-mediated (or laparoscopic-mediated) transplantation of stem cells into/onto bile duct walls of particular regions of the biliary tree

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Miami Beach, FL, United States of America

Giacomo Lanzoni