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Inclusion of peripancreatic lymph node cells prevents recurrent autoimmune destruction of islet transplants: evidence of donor chimerism.
Surgery - 1 Aug 1995
Bartlett S T, Chin T, Dirden B, Quereshi A, Hadley G
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BACKGROUND: Recurrent autoimmune beta-cell destruction may contribute to the poor results of clinical islet transplantation. Pancreas transplants from diabetes-resistant BB rats (BB-DR) are uniformly successful in autoimmune diabetic BB rats (BB-Ac), but isolated islets are destroyed, despite immunosuppression. In this study we tested the hypothesis that whole pancreas transplants abrogate autoimmunity by passive...
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