Publications

• Long-term Metabolic and Immunological Follow-up of Nonimmunosuppressed Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Treated with Microencapsulated Islet Allografts: Four Cases
  Diabetes Care. Nov, 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21926290
• Highly Purified Versus Filtered Crude Collagenase: Comparable Human Islet Isolation Outcomes
  Cell Transplantation. Mar, 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21396158
• Functional Capacity of Human Islets After Long-distance Shipment and Encapsulation
  Pancreas. Mar, 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 20966806
• Encapsulation of Human Islets in Novel Inhomogeneous Alginate-ca2+/ba2+ Microbeads: in Vitro and in Vivo Function
  Artificial Cells, Blood Substitutes, and Immobilization Biotechnology. 2008  |   Pubmed ID: 18925451
• Increased Albumin Concentration Reduces Apoptosis and Improves Functionality of Human Islets
  Artificial Cells, Blood Substitutes, and Immobilization Biotechnology. 2008  |   Pubmed ID: 18293163
• Improved Human Pancreatic Islet Purification with the Refined UIC-UB Density Gradient
  Transplantation. Nov, 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 17998877
• Human Islet Isolation Outcomes from Pancreata Preserved with Histidine-Tryptophan Ketoglutarate Versus University of Wisconsin Solution
  Transplantation. Oct, 2006  |   Pubmed ID: 17038916
• Estrogens and Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 Modulate Neoplastic Cell Growth in Human Cholangiocarcinoma
  The American Journal of Pathology. Sep, 2006  |   Pubmed ID: 16936263
• Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Stimulates Rat Cholangiocyte Proliferation Via an Autocrine Mechanism
  Gastroenterology. Apr, 2006  |   Pubmed ID: 16618418
• Administration of R-VEGF-A Prevents Hepatic Artery Ligation-induced Bile Duct Damage in Bile Duct Ligated Rats
  American Journal of Physiology. Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. Aug, 2006  |   Pubmed ID: 16574985
• The Intrahepatic Biliary Epithelium is a Target of the Growth Hormone/insulin-like Growth Factor 1 Axis
  Journal of Hepatology. Nov, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 16083987
• Alpha-1 Adrenergic Receptor Agonists Modulate Ductal Secretion of BDL Rats Via Ca(2+)- and PKC-dependent Stimulation of CAMP
  Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). Nov, 2004  |   Pubmed ID: 15486932
• Nerve Growth Factor Modulates the Proliferative Capacity of the Intrahepatic Biliary Epithelium in Experimental Cholestasis
  Gastroenterology. Oct, 2004  |   Pubmed ID: 15480997
• Taurohyodeoxycholate- and Tauroursodeoxycholate-induced Hypercholeresis is Augmented in Bile Duct Ligated Rats
  Journal of Hepatology. Feb, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 12547401
• Dopaminergic Inhibition of Secretin-stimulated Choleresis by Increased PKC-gamma Expression and Decrease of PKA Activity
  American Journal of Physiology. Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. Apr, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 12505882
• Bile Acid Depletion and Repletion Regulate Cholangiocyte Growth and Secretion by a Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-dependent Pathway in Rats
  Gastroenterology. Oct, 2002  |   Pubmed ID: 12360484
• Corticosteroids Modulate the Secretory Processes of the Rat Intrahepatic Biliary Epithelium
  Gastroenterology. Apr, 2002  |   Pubmed ID: 11910357