Survival and function of syngeneic rat islet grafts placed within the thymus versus under the kidney capsule

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 597-602

  Rayat, Gina R ^a   Korbutt, Gregory S ^a   Elliott, John F ^a   Rajotte, Ray V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Islet transplantation; Kidney; Thymus

Indexed keywords

STREPTOZOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; ISOGRAFT; KIDNEY CAPSULE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; GRAFT SURVIVAL; INSULIN; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED WF; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC; TRANSPLANTS;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031466427     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-6897(97)00098-5     Document Type: Article

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