Intrathymic transplantation of fresh and cryopreserved islets for the induction of a state of unresponsiveness in rats

Transplantation

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 506-508

  Lakey, Jonathan R T ^a   Warnock, Garth L ^a   Rajotte, Ray V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; GRAFT PRESERVATION; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, INBRED WF; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, ISOGENEIC;

EID: 0030021372     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199602150-00033     Document Type: Article

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