Federico Bertuzzi

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1 International trial of the Edmonton protocol for islet transplantation. N Engl J Med 2006 13.43
2 Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells express a restricted set of functionally active chemokine receptors capable of promoting migration to pancreatic islets. Blood 2005 2.39
3 Islet transplantation is associated with improvement of renal function among uremic patients with type I diabetes mellitus and kidney transplants. J Am Soc Nephrol 2003 1.85
4 Human pancreatic islets produce and secrete MCP-1/CCL2: relevance in human islet transplantation. Diabetes 2002 1.84
5 Islet transplantation in patients with autoimmune diabetes induces homeostatic cytokines that expand autoreactive memory T cells. J Clin Invest 2008 1.73
6 The glial glutamate transporter 1 (GLT1) is expressed by pancreatic beta-cells and prevents glutamate-induced beta-cell death. J Biol Chem 2011 1.72
7 Acylated and unacylated ghrelin promote proliferation and inhibit apoptosis of pancreatic beta-cells and human islets: involvement of 3',5'-cyclic adenosine monophosphate/protein kinase A, extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2, and phosphatidyl inositol 3-Kinase/Akt signaling. Endocrinology 2006 1.43
8 Kidney function after islet transplant alone in type 1 diabetes: impact of immunosuppressive therapy on progression of diabetic nephropathy. Diabetes Care 2007 1.34
9 Requirements for success in clinical islet transplantation. Transplantation 2005 1.11
10 Chronic hyperglycemia impairs insulin secretion by affecting insulin receptor expression, splicing, and signaling in RIN beta cell line and human islets of Langerhans. FASEB J 2003 0.98
11 Transplant estimated function: a simple index to evaluate beta-cell secretion after islet transplantation. Diabetes Care 2007 0.98
12 Long-term beneficial effect of islet transplantation on diabetic macro-/microangiopathy in type 1 diabetic kidney-transplanted patients. Diabetes Care 2003 0.97
13 Technique, complications, and therapeutic efficacy of percutaneous transplantation of human pancreatic islet cells in type 1 diabetes: the role of US. Radiology 2004 0.96
14 Islet transplantation improves vascular diabetic complications in patients with diabetes who underwent kidney transplantation: a comparison between kidney-pancreas and kidney-alone transplantation. Transplantation 2003 0.92
15 Characterization of collagenase blend enzymes for human islet transplantation. Transplantation 2007 0.91
16 Transglutaminase 2 transamidation activity during first-phase insulin secretion: natural substrates in INS-1E. Acta Diabetol 2012 0.85
17 Disproportionate hyperproinsulinemia, beta-cell restricted prohormone convertase 2 deficiency, and cell cycle inhibitors expression by human islets transplanted into athymic nude mice: insights into nonimmune-mediated mechanisms of delayed islet graft failure. Cell Transplant 2008 0.85
18 Minimal focal steatosis of liver after islet transplantation in humans: a long-term study. Cell Transplant 2005 0.84
19 Prolonged islet allograft survival in diabetic mice upon macrophage depletion by clodronate-loaded erythrocytes. Transplantation 2008 0.81
20 Diabetes mellitus: an opportunity for therapy with stem cells? Regen Med 2008 0.81
21 Uric acid may inhibit glucose-induced insulin secretion via binding to an essential arginine residue in rat pancreatic beta-cells. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2005 0.81
22 Serological Proteome Analysis (SERPA) as a tool for the identification of new candidate autoantigens in type 1 diabetes. J Proteomics 2013 0.80
23 Iatrogenic hypoglycemia secondary to tight glucose control is an independent determinant for mortality and cardiac morbidity. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2011 0.80
24 Antitumorigenic and antiinsulinogenic effects of calcitriol on insulinoma cells and solid beta-cell tumors. Endocrinology 2002 0.80
25 Donor and isolation variables associated with human islet monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 release. Transplantation 2004 0.77
26 Delta cell death in the islet of Langerhans and the progression from normal glucose tolerance to type 2 diabetes in non-human primates (baboon, Papio hamadryas). Diabetologia 2015 0.77
27 Late sodium current (INaL) in pancreatic β-cells. Pflugers Arch 2014 0.77
28 Human placental lactogen (hPL-A) activates signaling pathways linked to cell survival and improves insulin secretion in human pancreatic islets. Islets 2011 0.76
29 Steroid-free immunosuppression in kidney-islet transplantation: a long-term follow-up. Transplantation 2002 0.75
30 Temporal clustering for blood glucose analysis in the ICU: identification of groups of patients with different risk profile. Stud Health Technol Inform 2010 0.75
31 Islet Transplantation in Pediatric Patients: Current Indications and Future Perspectives. Endocr Dev 2015 0.75