Standard Technical Procedures for Microencapsulation of Human Islets for Graft into Nonimmunosuppressed Patients With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1156-1157

  Calafiore, R ^a   Basta, G ^a   Luca, G ^a   Lemmi, A ^a   Racanicchi, L ^a   Mancuso, F ^a   Montanucci, M P ^a   Brunetti, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIALYSIS; DILUTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FILTRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MICROCAPSULE; MICROENCAPSULATION; OSMOLALITY; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD;

CAPSULES; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE I; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; ITALY; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 33744516830     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.03.014     Document Type: Article

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