Transplantation of Sertoli-islet cell aggregates formed by microgravity: Prolonged survival in diabetic rats

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 234, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 595-603

  Han, Xiaoming ^a   Qiu, Liyuan ^a   Zhang, Ye ^a,b   Kong, Qingxue ^a   Wang, Hong ^a,c   Wang, Haibin ^a   Li, Hongbo ^a   Duan, Cuimi ^a   Wang, Yanmeng ^a   Song, Ying ^d   Wang, Changyong ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Islets transplantation; Local immunoprotection; Rotating wall vessel (RWV) bioreactor; Sertoli islet cell aggregates (SICA)

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; COCULTURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INSULIN RELEASE; KIDNEY CAPSULE; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WISTAR RAT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL SEPARATION; EXPERIMENTAL DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ANIMALS; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SERTOLI CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 66149119042     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/0812-RM-359     Document Type: Article

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