A better yield of islet cell mass from living pancreatic donors compared with cadaveric donors

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 738-743

  Jung, Hye Seung ^a   Choi, Seong Ho ^a   Kim, Sung Joo ^a   Lee, Kyu Taek ^a   Lee, Jong Kyun ^a   Jang, Kee Taek ^a   Lee, Byung Wan ^b   Jee, Jae Hwan ^a   Oh, Seung Hoon ^c   Ahn, You Ran ^c   Lee, Moon Kyu ^a   Kim, Kwang Won ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Hallym University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Samsung Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Brain death; Living door; Yield of islet mass

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CADAVER DONOR; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL VIABILITY; COLD ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; TISSUE CULTURE;

ADULT; CADAVER; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 35848941504     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2007.00731.x     Document Type: Article

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