Living donor islet transplantation, the alternative approach to overcome the obstacles limiting transplant

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1079, Issue , 2006, Pages 335-339

  Iwanaga, Yasuhiro ^a,b   Matsumoto, Shinichi ^b,c   Okitsu, Teru ^a,b   Noguchi, Hirofumi ^a,b   Nagata, Hideo ^a,b   Yonekawa, Yukihide ^a,b   Yamada, Yuichiro ^a   Fukuda, Kazuhito ^a   Tsukiyama, Katsushi ^a   Tanaka, Koichi ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Diabetes Research Institute Kyoto   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d Institute of Biomedical Research and Innovation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus; Living donor; Living donor islet transplantation

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; INFLIXIMAB; INSULIN; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIABETES CONTROL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN TREATMENT; LIVING DONOR; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; ORGAN DONOR; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

EID: 33845717888     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1375.051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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