Quantitative and Qualitative Standards for Islet Isolation Assessment in Humans and Large Mammals

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Several procedures have been recently developed to separate and purify pancreatic islets from large mammals, including humans. It is often difficult to interpret and compare results, mainly because of lack of standardization of criteria for Islet Isolation Assessment (IIA). In small animals, such as rodents, it is generally not a problem to identify and count all the islet tissue retrieved, due to the small...

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