Isolation, transplantation, and functional studies of adult porcine islets of Langerhans

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 127-135

  Nielsen, Thomas Buschmann ^a   Yderstraede, Knud Bonnet ^a   Beck Nielsen, Henning ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN RELEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; ORGAN DONOR; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; SWINE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CELL SEPARATION; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARGININE; DNA; GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; INSULIN; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; SWINE;

EID: 0036011142     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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