The Liver Surface Is an Attractive Transplant Site for Pancreatic Islet Transplantation

In the current clinical islet transplantation, intraportal transplantation is regarded as the gold-standard procedure. However, in this procedure, 50 to 70% of the transplanted islets are immediately damaged due to a strong innate immune response based on islet–blood contact. We investigated the tra...

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Main Authors: Akiko Inagaki, Takehiro Imura, Yasuhiro Nakamura, Kazuo Ohashi, Masafumi Goto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-02-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Medicine
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/10/4/724