An Encapsulation System for the Immunoisolation of Pancreatic Islets

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 358-362

  Wang, Taylor ^a   Lacík, Igor ^a   Brissová, Marcela ^a   Anilkumar, Amrutur V ^a   Prokop, Ales ^a,b   Hunkele, David ^a   Green, Ray ^a   Snahrokhi, Keivan ^a,c   Powers, Alvin C ^a,c,d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Capsules; Diabetes; Encapsulation; Transplantation; Xenograft

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ENCAPSULATION; IONIC STRENGTH; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTATION RATE; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CAPSULES; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIFFUSION CHAMBERS, CULTURE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED NOD; PERMEABILITY; POLYMERS; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0030946282     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0497-358     Document Type: Article

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