Influence of VEGF on the viability of encapsulated pancreatic rat islets after transplantation in diabetic mice

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 627-635

  Sigrist, S ^a   Mechine Neuville, A ^b   Mandes, K ^a   Calenda, V ^c   Braun, S ^c   Legeay, G ^d   Bellocq, J P ^b   Pinget, M ^a   Kessler, Laurence ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b HÔPITAL DE HAUTEPIERRE   (France)

^c TRANSGENE S A   (France)

^d Centre de Transfert de Technologie du Mans   (France)

^e Centre Europeen d'Etude du Diabete   (France)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Diabetes; Encapsulation; Islets; Transplantation; VEGF

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; RECOMBINANT VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL SIZE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IMMOBILIZED CELL; INSULIN RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS BLOOD FLOW; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; RELAPSE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0141676252     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/000000003108747109     Document Type: Article

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