Observing Islet Function and Islet-Immune Cell Interactions in Live Pancreatic Tissue SlicesMollie K. Huber 1, Denise M. Drotar 2,3,4, Helmut Hiller 1, Maria L. Beery 1, Paul Joseph 1, Irina Kusmartseva 1, Stephan Speier 2,3,4, Mark A. Atkinson 1, Clayton E. Mathews 1, Edward A. Phelps 5
1Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, 2Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden (PLID) of the Helmholtz Zentrum München at the University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus of Technische Universität Dresden, 3Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, 4German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), 5J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida
This study presents the application of live pancreatic tissue slices to the study of islet physiology and islet-immune cell interactions.
