Brain Death Impairs Pancreatic Microcirculation

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 210-215

  Obermaier, Robert ^a   Von Dobschuetz, Ernst ^a   Keck, Tobias ^a   Hoppb, Hans Heinrich ^b   Drognitz, Oliver ^a   Schareck, Wolfgang ^b   Hopt, Ulrich Theodor ^a   Benz, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain death; Inflammation; Microcirculation; Pancreas

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; PANCREAS ENZYME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FOGARTY CATHETER; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PANCREAS MICROCIRCULATION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMYLASES; ANIMALS; BRAIN DEATH; CELL ADHESION; EDEMA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PANCREAS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFLEX;

EID: 1342344025     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1600-6143.2003.00317.x     Document Type: Article

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