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ReviewMedGenMed : Medscape general medicine2004

Advances in diabetes for the millennium: toward a cure for diabetes.

Aaron I Vinik, David Taylor Fishwick, Gary Pittenger

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Review in MedGenMed : Medscape general medicine, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Aaron I VinikThe Leonard Strelitz Diabetes Institute, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
David Taylor Fishwick
Gary Pittenger
Leonard Cheshire · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

What does the future hold for the person with diabetes, since current therapies, including insulin, are all symptomatic and do not address the underlying biology? This article reviews the current state-of-the-art strategies aimed at curing diabetes. The central rationale to curing diabetes revolves around replacing the function of pancreatic islets, either directly through pancreatic/islet transplantation, indirectly through artificial pancreas/beta cells, or via a rebirth of islet function by reprogramming the body to create a new and expanded islet cell mass protected from further assault by autoimmune and other processes. All of these approaches are considered in context of their current status, progress, future challenges or limitations, and long-term prospects for a cure. Although the horizon is in the distance, the advances reviewed in this study predict the future to be bright, and whereas the prospect of islet neogenesis was once considered to be heretical, it is now quite fashionable amongst the scientific community.

Indexed as

Diabetes MellitusHumansIslets of Langerhans TransplantationPancreas Transplantation

Identifiers

PMID15647717
PMCPMC1474820
OpenAlexW140728603

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.