Inosine improves islet xenograft survival in immuncompetent diabetic mice

European Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 283-286

  Schneider, Stephan ^a   Klein, H H ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inosine; Rat islets; Transplantation; Xenogenic

Indexed keywords

CD45 ANTIGEN; INOSINE; STREPTOZOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RAT; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; SURVIVAL TIME; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INOSINE; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 23644442284     PISSN: 09492321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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