What type of islets should be used?

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 81-82

  Korbutt, Gregory S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGENASE;

CELL ISOLATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL VIABILITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; GESTATIONAL AGE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 42649100631     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2008.00455.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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