Pancreas transplantation and ischemia-reperfusion injury: Current considerations

Pancreas

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 226-227

  Drognitz, Oliver ^a   Obermaier, Robert ^a   Dobschuetz, Ernst Von ^a   Pisarski, Przemyslaw ^a   Neeff, Hannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTITHROMBIN III; ARGININE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SCAVENGER;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; COLD ISCHEMIA; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; LETTER; MICROCIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS FUNCTION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREATITIS; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION INJURY; ANIMAL; RAT;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANIMALS; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; RATS; REPERFUSION INJURY;

EID: 65349188100     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPA.0b013e3181788e2b     Document Type: Letter

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