Is there an optimal concentration of cotransplanted islets of Langerhans for stimulation of hepatocytes in three dimensional matrices?

Transplantation

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 272-279

  Kaufmann, Peter M ^a   Kneser, Ulrich ^a   Fiegel, Henning C ^a   Pollok, Joerg M ^a   Kluth, Dietrich ^a   Izbicki, Jakob R ^a   Herbst, Hermann ^a   Rogiers, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DEVICE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ALBUMINS; ANIMALS; BIOPOLYMERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER; MALE; PORTACAVAL SHUNT, SURGICAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC;

EID: 0033609487     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199907270-00020     Document Type: Article

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