IN VIVO TRANSFORMATION OF PANCREATIC ACINAR CELLS INTO INSULIN-PRODUCING CELLS

摘要

The present invention includes compositions and methods for transforming cells into glucose-responsive, insulin-production cells using a construct that expresses betacellulin and PDX1, e.g., transforming pancreatic acinar cells using one or more expression vectors that expressed betacellulin and PDX1 using ultrasound targeted microbubble destruction (UTMD).