New capsule with tailored properties for the encapsulation of living cells

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 52-60

  Lacik I ^a,b   Brissova M ^a   Anilkumar, A V ^a   Powers, A C ^a   Wang, T ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Bioartificial pancreas; Cell encapsulation; Islets of Langerhans; Multicomponent capsule; Polyelectrolyte complexation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; CELLS; CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; COMPLEXATION; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; COPOLYMERS; ENCAPSULATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POLYELECTROLYTES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

CALCIUM CHLORIDE; LANGERHANS ISLETS; SODIUM ALGINATE;

BIOMATERIALS;

ALGINIC ACID; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CELLULOSE SULFATE; GUANIDINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCAPSULATION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; RAT;

EID: 0030635256     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4636(199801)39:1<52::AID-JBM7>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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