Survival of microencapsulated islets at 400 days posttransplantation in the omental pouch of NOD mice

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 359-365

  Kobayashi, Tsunehiro ^a,b   Aomatsu, Yukio ^c   Iwata, Hiroo ^d   Kin, Tatsuya ^b   Kanehiro, Hiromichi ^a   Hisanga, Michiyoshi ^a   Ko, Saiho ^a   Nagao, Mitsuo ^a   Harb, George ^b   Nakajima, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Matsubara Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agarose; Autoimmunity; Islet transplantation; Microencapsulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; MICROENCAPSULATION; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULARIZATION;

ALGINATES; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED NOD; OMENTUM; SEPHAROSE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 33746728233     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/000000006783981954     Document Type: Article

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