In a rat model of STZ-induced diabetes, pancreatic islet transplantation, unlike intensive insulin therapy, successfully corrected pulmonary vascular resistance abnormalities.
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Islet transplantation may normalize pulmonary resistance in diabetic rats unlike insulin; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Russ et al. (1998) studied this question.
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