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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2001
Leonard C. Harrison, St Kilda West, AU;
Fang-xu Jiang, North Melbourne, AU;
Edouard Guy Stanley, Ascot Vale, AU;
Leonel Jorge Gonez, Chadstone, AU;
Leonard C. Harrison, St Kilda West, AU;
Fang-Xu Jiang, North Melbourne, AU;
Edouard Guy Stanley, Ascot Vale, AU;
Leonel Jorge Gonez, Chadstone, AU;
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Victoria, AU;
Abstract
The present invention relates generally to growth factors and more particularly to growth factors which are capable of stimulating or otherwise facilitating formation of insulin-secreting cells. The identification of these growth factors permits the development of protocols to culture cells in vitro for transplantation into mammalian and in particular human subjects with insulin-dependent type 1 diabetes or related conditions. It is further contemplated that the endogenous expression of growth factors required for the development of insulin-producing cells may be manipulated in vivo, by the appropriate administration of agents including genetic agents capable of regulating the expression of growth factors in pancreatic duct epithelial cells. The growth factors ray also be administered to subjects with type 1 diabetes to stimulate the proliferation and differentiation of pancreatic cells into insulin-secreting cells. The present invention also provides modulators of growth factor-mediated pancreatic cell differentiation. Such modulators are useful in the treatment inter alia of β cell tumors and/or pancreatic cancer.