. . . . . . . . . . . . "[This review focuses on the recent advances in gene therapy of insulin-requiring diabetes, with particular emphasis on 1. the gene delivery systems by viral vectors, since most gene therapy approaches for DM involve the use of viral vectors, paying special attention to current efforts to overcome the disadvantages of adenovirus, adenovirus-associated virus and retrovirus vectors and targeting gene delivery for optimal efficiency of gene expression; 2. coupling the synthesis and release of the transgene insulin to serum glucose concentrations, especially with reference to the current promoters controlling at transcriptional level the ectopic insulin expression in autologous hepatocytes; 3. beta-cell replacement strategies: engineering of beta-cells, especially those derived from pluripotent stem cells, non beta-cells, and on a new comer, the K cells.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2016-02-19"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . "2016-05-13T12:44:38+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v4.0.0.0" . "v4.0.0" .