Better vascular engraftment and function in pancreatic islets transplanted without prior culture

Diabetologia

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 469-476

  Olsson, R ^a   Carlsson, P O ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Engraftment; Islet culture; Islet transplantation; Minimal islet mass; Revascularisation; Tissue oxygen tension; Vascular density

Indexed keywords

ALLOXAN DIABETES MELLITUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DONOR; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ISOGRAFT; KIDNEY CAPSULE; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REVASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OXYGEN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; RATS; RATS, INBRED WF; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 16844376921     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00125-004-1650-x     Document Type: Article

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