“…Compared with other variables such as gender and body-weight, donor age seems to have a greater impact on islet size, yield, and functionality (Dufrane et al, 2005;Bottino et al, 2007;Kim et al, 2009). Neonatal pig pancreatic cell clusters (NPCCs) provide additional advantages over adult pig islets (APIs), such as their ease of isolation and purification, resistance to ischemia and inflammation during preparation, low cost, and low level of T-cell response (Nagaraju et al, 2015;Zhu et al, 2014a). After implantation, encapsulated immature pig islets, including NPCCs and fetal pig islet-like cell clusters (FPICCs), can proliferate and differentiate into mature β-cell masses and show excellent metabolic control in vivo (Omer et al, 2003b;Foster et al, 2007).…”