Normalization of diabetes in spontaneously diabetic cynomologus monkeys by xenografts of microencapsulated porcine islets without immunosuppression

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1417-1422

  Sun, Yilu ^a   Ma, Xiaojun ^a   Zhou, Daobiao ^a   Vacek, Ivan ^a   Sun, Anthony M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

microencapsulation; nonimmunosuppression; pancreatic islets; xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN DEPENDENCE; MICROENCAPSULATION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; XENOGRAFT;

EID: 0029780036     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI118929     Document Type: Article

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