Method of preserving pancreatic islets
US5679565A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 10, 1995 |
| Grant date | Oct 21, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 10, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
- CPC primaryC12N2509/00
- WIPO fieldBasic materials chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A method, a solution and a chamber for the preparation and storage of pancreatic islets. The method includes contacting a pancreas with a warm collagenase solution, digesting the pancreas in the warm collagenase solution to form warm digest, adding cold preservative solution to the warm digest, agitating the warm digest/cold preservative solution at a temperature between about 0.degree. and 15.degree. C., to thereby further digest the partially digested pancreas included in the warm digest, to form cold digest and collecting liquid from the cold digest to form isolated islets. The cold preservative solution and a pancreatic islet preservative solution of the present invention include D-mannitol, K-lactobionate and a buffer.
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