The epididymal fat pad as a transplant site for minimal islet mass

Transplantation

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 122-125

  Chen, Xiaojuan ^a   Zhang, Xiaomin ^a   Larson, Courtney ^a   Chen, Fei ^a   Kissler, Hermann ^a   Kaufman, Dixon B ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Engraftment; Islet imaging; Islet transplantation

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LUCIFERASE; STREPTOZOCIN;

ADIPOCYTE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENGRAFTMENT; EPIDIDYMIS FAT; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HISTOLOGY; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; ISOGRAFT; LIVER HILUS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; EPIDIDYMIS; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INSULIN; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; LUMINESCENCE; MALE; MICE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC;

EID: 34447625398     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000266909.58117.e3     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Ryan EA, Paty BW, Senior PA, Shapiro AM. Risks and side effects of islet transplantation. Curr Diabetes Rep 2004; 4: 304.
2. Yasunami Y, Lacy PE, Finke EH. A new site for islet transplantation - a peritoneal - omental pouch. Transplantation 1983; 36: 181.
3. Ao Z, Matayoshi K, Lakey JR, Rajotte RV, Warnock GL. Survival and function of purified islets in the omental pouch site of outbred dogs. Transplantation 1993; 56: 524.
4. Kin T, Korbutt GS, Rajotte RV. Survival and metabolic function of syngeneic rat islet grafts transplanted in the omental pouch. Am J Transplant 2003; 3: 281.
5. Dufour JM, Rajotte RV, Zimmerman M, et al. Development of an ectopic site for islet transplantation, using biodegradable scaffolds. Tissue Engineering 2005; 11: 1323.
6. Blomeier H, Zhang X, Rives C, et al. Polymer scaffolds as synthetic mircroenvironments for extrahepatic islet transplantation. Transplantation 2006; 82: 452.
7. Chen X, Zhang X, Larson CS, Baker MS, Kaufman DB. In vivo bioluminescence imaging of transplanted islets and early detection of graft rejection. Transplantation 2006; 81: 1421.
8. Chen X, Kaufman DB. Bioluminescence imaging of pancreatic islet transplants. Curr Med Chem 2004; 4: 301.