Effect of the silk protein sericin on cryopreserved rat islets

Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 354-360

  Ohnishi, Kenji ^a   Murakami, Makoto ^a   Morikawa, Mitsuhiro ^a   Yamaguchi, Akio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Islet cryopreservation; Islet transplantation; Sericin; Serum free freezing medium

Indexed keywords

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FETAL BOVINE SERUM; INSULIN; SERICIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOMBYX MORI; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INSULIN RELEASE; LEWIS RAT; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; RAT; SURVIVAL RATE; THAWING; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; INSULIN; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MALE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ORGAN PRESERVATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SERICINS;

EID: 84867405651     PISSN: 18686974     EISSN: 18686982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00534-011-0415-4     Document Type: Article

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