A NEW SITE FOR ISLET TRANSPLANTATION—A PERITONEAL-OMENTAL POUCH
- 1 August 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Transplantation
- Vol. 36 (2) , 181-182
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00007890-198308000-00014
Abstract
A new site for islet transplantation is described. A peritoneal-omental pouch was constructed in diabetic rats by encasing the omentum in a pouch formed from a strip of parietal peritoneum obtained from the recipient. Isografts of rat islets placed in the pouch maintained normoglycemia in the recipients and removal of the pouch resulted in a rapid return to a diabetic state. This site may be applicable to the transplantation of islets in human diabetes.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit: