Surgery
Volume 148, Issue 4 , Pages 858-866 , October 2010

Modified gold nanoparticle vectors: A biocompatible intracellular delivery system for pancreatic islet cell transplantation

Presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Central Surgical Association (CSA), March 11–13, 2010, Chicago, Illinois.

,Accepted 15 July 2010.

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 Supported by funding from the University of Illinois at Chicago as well as by the Chicago Diabetes Project.

PII: S0039-6060(10)00404-6

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2010.07.036

Surgery
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