Islet isolation for clinical transplantation

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 654, Issue , 2010, Pages 683-710

  Kin, Tatsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Culture; Islet purification; Organ preservation; Pancreas dissociation

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; 4 (2 AMINOETHYL)BENZENESULFONYL FLUORIDE; COLLAGENASE; COLLAGENASE CLASS I; COLLAGENASE CLASS II; GLUTAMINE; HISTIDINE; NICOTINAMIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; INSULIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELL DAMAGE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SIZE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VOLUME; COLD ISCHEMIA; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DISSOCIATION; DONOR SELECTION; ENZYMATIC DISSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INCUBATION TIME; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LENGTH OF STAY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PANCREAS ISLET CELL FUNCTION; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOLOGY; DONOR; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PANCREAS; PANCREAS ISLET; PATHOLOGY; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INSULIN; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PANCREAS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 77953917700     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3271-3_30     Document Type: Review

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