Transplantation of human fetal pancreas: Fresh vs. cultured fetal islets or ICCS

Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 70-73

  Beattie, G M ^a,b   Lopez, A D ^a,b   Otonkoski, T ^a,b   Hayek, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Human fetal pancreas; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL MATURATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 0033048421     PISSN: 09462716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001090050304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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