Foetal rat pancreatic transplantation: Posttransplantation development of foetal pancreatic iso- and allografts and suppression of rejection with Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and cyclosporine based immunesuppression

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 347-355

  Du Toit, Don ^a,c   Muller, Christo ^a   Page, Ben ^a   Louw, Johan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c Faculty of Medicine   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Islets; Organogenesis

Indexed keywords

DRUG PRODUCTS; GRAFTS; RATS; TISSUE;

ANIMAL MODEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENGRAFTMENT; FETAL RATS; HYPERGLYCAEMIA; ISLET; MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL; ORGANOGENESIS; POSTTRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

HISTOLOGY;

CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES;

EID: 0032534038     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19981115)43:4<347::AID-JEMT9>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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