Engraftment of adult porcine islet xenografts in diabetic nonhuman primates through targeting of costimulation pathways

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2260-2268

  Cardona, K ^a   Milas, Z ^a   Strobert, E ^b   Cano, J ^a   Jiang, W ^a   Safley, S A ^a   Gangappa, S ^a   Hering, B J ^c   Weber, C J ^a   Pearson, T C ^a   Larsen, C P ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Costimulation blockade; Diabetes; Porcine islets; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; BELATACEPT; CD40 LIGAND MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RAPAMYCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENGRAFTMENT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS RESECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; HEPARIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MACACA MULATTA; MONITORING, IMMUNOLOGIC; PANCREATECTOMY; PRIMATES; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 34548321344     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2007.01933.x     Document Type: Article

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