Early graft injuries after pancreatic transplantation in syngeneic rats. Cytoprotective effects of gabexate-mesilate
Bassi, C.; Benetti, L.; Girelli, R.; Falconi, M.; Nifosí, F.; Coviello, G.; Cavallini, G.; Vesentini, S.; Dragonetti, C.; Pederzoli, P.
International Journal of Pancreatology Official Journal of the International Association of Pancreatology 8(4): 345-353
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0169-4197 PMID: 1791320 Document Number: 378681
Failures in experimental and human pancreatic transplantation are mainly attributable to rejection, graft thrombosis, and technical problems. There are, however, problems related to other causes, such as preservation injuries, which we found to exhibit, at least within the first 6 h, the same histological patterns seen in experimental acute pancreatitis. We performed pancreatic transplantation in 110 syngeneic rats under different preservation techniques and administration of gabexate mesilate, a synthetic protease inhibitor. The results showed that antiprotease treatment reduces graft preservation injuries significantly.