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1997 • 1,848 citations

Low antioxidant enzyme gene expression in pancreatic islets compared with various other mouse tissues

1996 • 1,136 citations

Clinical Outcomes and Insulin Secretion After Islet Transplantation With the Edmonton Protocol

2001 • 864 citations

Small Stress Proteins as Novel Regulators of Apoptosis

1996 • 614 citations

Islet isolation assessment in man and large animals

1990 • 575 citations

Heat Shock Proteins Increase Resistance to Apoptosis

1996 • 517 citations

Glucose Induces β-Cell Apoptosis Via Upregulation of the Fas Receptor in Human Islets

2001 • 365 citations

Heme Oxygenase-1 Induction in Islet Cells Results in Protection From Apoptosis and Improved In Vivo Function After Transplantation

2001 • 263 citations

Transplantation of allogeneic islets of Langerhans in the rat liver: effects of macrophage depletion on graft survival and microenvironment activation.

1998 • 244 citations

Measurements of oxygen tension in native and transplanted rat pancreatic islets.

1998 • 183 citations

Heat shock induces resistance in rat pancreatic islet cells against nitric oxide, oxygen radicals and streptozotocin toxicity in vitro.

1995 • 156 citations

Overexpression of the heat shock protein 70 enhances the TCR/CD3- and Fas/Apo-1/CD95-mediated apoptotic cell death in Jurkat T cells.

1997 • 146 citations

Antioxidant‐mediated inhibition of the heat shock response leads to apoptosis

1999 • 143 citations

Cytotoxic effects of cytokines on rat islets: Evidence for involvement of free radicals and lipid peroxidation

1992 • 142 citations

Human islets of Langerhans express Fas ligand and undergo apoptosis in response to interleukin-1beta and Fas ligation.

1998 • 141 citations

Redox regulation of apoptotic cell death

1998 • 120 citations

SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN PORCINE ISLET MASS ISOLATION UTILIZING LIBERASE HI FOR ENZYMATIC LOW-TEMPERATURE PANCREAS DIGESTION1

1999 • 119 citations

Response of Mammalian Cells to Metabolic Stress; Changes in Cell Physiology and Structure/Function of Stress Proteins

1991 • 103 citations

Effect of core pancreas temperature during cadaveric procurement on human islet isolation and functional viability1

2002 • 79 citations

Essential role of caspase-3 in apoptosis of mouse beta-cells transfected with human Fas.

1999 • 52 citations

Endotoxin-mediated activation of cytokine production in human PBMCs by collagenase and Ficoll

1999 • 51 citations

Cytokine- or chemically derived nitric oxide alters the expression of proteins detected by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis in neonatal rat islets of Langerhans.

2000 • 48 citations

Insulin Recovery in Pancreas and Host Organs of Islet Grafts^*

2009 • 39 citations

Heat-induced thermal tolerance and radiation resistance to apoptosis in human lymphocytes

1997 • 31 citations

Low Stress Response Enhances Vulnerability of Islet Cells in Diabetes-Prone BB Rats

1997 • 29 citations

Pretransplant Induction of HSP-70 in Isolated Adult Pig Islets Decreases Early Islet Xenograft Survival

2000 • 16 citations

An improved technique for isolating pig islets: the importance of tensegrity in islet long-term culture viability

1999 • 15 citations