Transplantation of long-term cultured porcine islets in the rat: Prolonged graft survival and recipient growth on reduced immunosuppression

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 387-398

  Rijkelijkhuizen, Josephine K R A ^a   Töns, Annemiek ^a   Terpstra, Onno T ^a   Bouwman, Eelco ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adult porcine islets; Rat; Survival; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; GADOLINIUM CHLORIDE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CYCLOSPORIN; GADOLINIUM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SWINE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECTS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEWIS RAT; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; XENOGRAFT;

MUS MUSCULUS; RATTUS; SUIDAE; SUS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORINE; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; GADOLINIUM; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 77951493532     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368909X484257     Document Type: Article

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