Improved biocompatibility but limited graft survival after purification of alginate for microencapsulation of pancreatic islets

Diabetologia

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 262-270

  De Vos, P ^a   De Haan, B J ^a   Wolters, G H J ^a   Strubbe, J H ^a   Van Schilfgaarde, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alginate; Glucose tolerance; Graft function; Microencapsulation; Purification

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MICROENCAPSULATION; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ALGINATES; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CAPSULES; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; GLUCURONIC ACID; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEXURONIC ACIDS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POLYLYSINE; RATS; RATS, INBRED BB; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, ISOGENEIC;

EID: 0031028585     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001250050673     Document Type: Article

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