Improved Large-Scale Isolation of Breeder Porcine Islets: Possibility of Harvesting from Nonheart-Beating Donor

To establish a large-scale isolation procedure for adult porcine islets usable as a donor source for xenotransplantation and as a model of human islet isolation, we improved several characteristics of the conventional isolation procedure. At a slaughterhouse we first selected a breeder pig over 1.5...

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Main Authors: Masaaki Miyamoto M.D., Ph.D., Kazutomo Inoue, Yuanjun Gu, Thein Tun, Wanxing Cui, Ikuya Fujiwara, Harumasa Ohyanagi, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Tooru Yamazaki, Hiroshi Setoyama, Yoshiyuki Kawakami, Jun Ida, Masafumi Kogire, Masayuki Imamura, Hiroo Iwata, Yoshito Ikada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 1998-07-01
Series:Cell Transplantation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/096368979800700408