Transplantation of isolated islets has been proposed to be a potential treatment for type 1 diabetes. Here we describe a method to isolate islets from mouse pancreata and transplant them to the subcapsular space of the kidney.
Zmuda, E. J., Powell, C. A., Hai, T. A Method for Murine Islet Isolation and Subcapsular Kidney Transplantation. J. Vis. Exp. (50), e2096, doi:10.3791/2096 (2011).