A method for estimating number and mass of islets transplanted within a membrane device

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 613-625

  Suzuki, Kazuhisa ^a,b   Bonner Weir, Susan ^b   Hollister, Jennifer ^b   Weir, Gordon C ^b  

^a Harvard Medical School ^*  (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Islet transplantation; Membrane device; Planimetry; Quantitative analysis

Indexed keywords

HEMATOXYLIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL VOLUME; DEVICE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAFT REJECTION; INNER CELL MASS; METHODOLOGY; MICROENCAPSULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DIFFUSION CHAMBERS, CULTURE; EPIDIDYMIS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STREPTOZOCIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030469854     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-6897(96)00083-8     Document Type: Article

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