Endotoxin contamination may be responsible for the unexplained failure of human pancreatic islet transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 722-727

  Vargas, Francesca ^a   Vives Pi, Marta ^a,b   Somoza, Nuria ^a   Armengol, Pilar ^a   Alcalde, Laura ^a   Martí, Mercé ^a   Costa, Manuela ^b   Serradell, Laurence ^a   Dominguez, Orlando ^a   Fernández Llamazares, Jaume ^a   Julian, Joan F ^a   Sanmartí, Anna ^a   Pujol Borrell, Ricardo ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGENASE; CYTOKINE; ENDOTOXIN; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CELL SEPARATION; COLLAGENASES; CYTOKINES; ENDOTOXINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0032520793     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199803150-00020     Document Type: Article

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