Tissue-engineered pancreatic islets: Culturing rat islets in the chitosan sponge

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 4-5, 2001, Pages 499-502

  Cui, W ^a   Kim, D H ^b   Imamura, M ^a   Hyon, S H ^b   Inoue, K ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chitosan sponge; Subcutaneous islet transplantation; Three dimensional culture; Tissue engineering approach

Indexed keywords

CHITOSAN; INSULIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURE MEDIUM; INSULIN RELEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPONGE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TISSUE CULTURE;

EID: 0034874390     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/000000001783986684     Document Type: Conference Paper

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