Histologic findings in islets of whole pancreas allografts: Lack of evidence for recurrent cell-mediated diabetes mellitus

Transplantation

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1770-1772

  Drachenberg, Cinthia B ^a,b   Papadimitriou, John C ^a   Weir, Matthew R ^a   Klassen, David K ^a   Hoehn Saric, Edward ^a   Bartlett, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PANCREAS; PANCREATECTOMY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030471495     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199612270-00014     Document Type: Article

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