Normalization of diabetes by xenotransplantation of cryopreserved microencapsulated pancreatic islets: Application of a new strategy in islet banking

Transplantation

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 175-179

  Inaba, Kenji ^a   Zhou, David ^a   Yang, Bing ^a   Vacek, Ivan ^a   Sun, Anthony M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0030027061     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199601270-00001     Document Type: Article

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