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NATURE REVIEWS ENDOCRINOLOGY
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 232-248Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41574-022-00797-x
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This Review assesses the progress in developing pancreatic organoids and bioengineered systems for modeling diabetes mellitus and its complications. The merger between the organoid and bioengineering fields will provide integrative models for studying the multi-organ disease.
Organoid systems have great potential to improve the study of diseases such as diabetes mellitus. This Review assesses the progress in developing pancreatic organoids and bioengineered systems for modelling diabetes mellitus and its complications. Our understanding of diabetes mellitus has benefited from a combination of clinical investigations and work in model organisms and cell lines. Organoid models for a wide range of tissues are emerging as an additional tool enabling the study of diabetes mellitus. The applications for organoid models include studying human pancreatic cell development, pancreatic physiology, the response of target organs to pancreatic hormones and how glucose toxicity can affect tissues such as the blood vessels, retina, kidney and nerves. Organoids can be derived from human tissue cells or pluripotent stem cells and enable the production of human cell assemblies mimicking human organs. Many organ mimics relevant to diabetes mellitus are already available, but only a few relevant studies have been performed. We discuss the models that have been developed for the pancreas, liver, kidney, nerves and vasculature, how they complement other models, and their limitations. In addition, as diabetes mellitus is a multi-organ disease, we highlight how a merger between the organoid and bioengineering fields will provide integrative models.
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