Islet xenotransplantation: What is the optimal age of the islet-source pig?

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 7-19

  Nagaraju, Santosh ^a   Bottino, Rita ^b   Wijkstrom, Martin ^a   Trucco, Massimo ^b   Cooper, David K C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

adult islets; Diabetes mellitus; islets; non human primates; pig; xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; AGE; CELL ISOLATION; HUMAN; ISLET XENOTRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS RESECTION; PRIMATE MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SWINE; XENOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DONOR; EMBRYOLOGY; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; NEWBORN; NONOBESE DIABETIC MOUSE; OMENTUM; PIG; PORTAL VEIN; PRIMATE; PROCEDURES; RODENT; SCID MOUSE; TRANSPLANTATION; XENOGRAFT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELLS, CULTURED; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; HETEROGRAFTS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED NOD; MICE, SCID; OMENTUM; PORTAL VEIN; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; SUS SCROFA; SWINE; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC;

EID: 84920745531     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/xen.12130     Document Type: Review

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