Pancreatic islet culture and preservation strategies: Advances, challenges, and future outlook

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1523-1535

  Daoud, Jamal ^a   Rosenberg, Lawrence ^b   Tabrizian, Maryam ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioreactors; Encapsulation; Islet culture; Scaffolds; Surface modification

Indexed keywords

TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

BIOREACTOR; CELL CULTURE; CELL ENCAPSULATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS ISLET CELL CULTURE; PANCREAS ISLET PRESERVATION; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIOREACTORS; CULTURE MEDIA; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DRUG COMPOUNDING; HUMANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 79951840041     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368910X515872     Document Type: Review

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