Pig islets for clinical islet xenotransplantation

Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 495-500

  Dufrane, Denis ^a   Gianello, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Clinical; Donor source; Pig islets; Preclinical; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INSULIN;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIABETES MELLITUS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES; SWINE; XENOTRANSPLANTATION; AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; DONOR; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GENETICS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE; XENOGRAFT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MODELS, ANIMAL; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 73349108506     PISSN: 10624821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNH.0b013e328331a8e3     Document Type: Review

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