Quantification of the islet product: Presentation of a standardized current good manufacturing practices compliant system with minimal variability

Transplantation

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 677-683

  Friberg, Andrew S ^a   Brandhorst, Heide ^a   Buchwald, Peter ^b   Goto, Masafumi ^c   Ricordi, Camillo ^b   Brandhorst, Daniel ^a   Korsgren, Olle ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Digital imaging analysis; GMP; Islet evaluation; Purity; Volume

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; EVALUATION; GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PANCREAS ISLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; STANDARDIZATION; TISSUE CULTURE;

CALIBRATION; CELL SIZE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MICROSPHERES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79952763576     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31820ae48e     Document Type: Article

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