Open AccessFactors Affecting Transplant Outcomes in Diabetic Nude Mice Receiving Human, Porcine, and Nonhuman Primate Islets
Author(s) -
Gopalakrishnan Loganathan,
Melanie L. Graham,
David M. Radosevich,
Sajjad Soltani,
Mukesh Tiwari,
Takayuki Anazawa,
Klearchos K. Papas,
David E.R. Sutherland,
Bernhard J. Hering,
A. N. Balamurugan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/tp.0b013e318293b7b8
Subject(s) - nonhuman primate , islet , primate , non human primate , transplantation , diabetes mellitus , medicine , biology , oncology , endocrinology , evolutionary biology , neuroscience
In the absence of a reliable islet potency assay, nude mice (NM) transplantation is the criterion standard to assess islet quality for clinical transplantation. There are factors other than islet quality that affect the transplant outcome.