Effects of collagenase concentration on the purity and viability of isolated porcine pancreatic islets for use in xenotransplantation studies

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 3, Issue 1 PART 1, 1996, Pages 11-17

  Zhou, Daoblao ^a   Yang, Bing ^a   Sun, Yilu ^a   Vacek, Ivan ^a   Sun, Anthony M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collagenase; Porcine pancreatic islets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030041856     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.1996.tb00113.x     Document Type: Article

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