Fibroblasts accelerate islet revascularization and improve long-term graft survival in a mouse model of subcutaneous islet transplantation

• Marcos Perez-Basterrechea ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marcos Perez-Basterrechea, Manuel Martinez Esteban

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mpbasterrechea@gmail.com, marcos.perez@sespa.es

  Affiliation Unidad de Trasplantes, Terapia Celular y Medicina Regenerativa, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8242-5365

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• Manuel Martinez Esteban ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marcos Perez-Basterrechea, Manuel Martinez Esteban

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Biologia Funcional, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

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• Maria Alvarez-Viejo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unidad de Trasplantes, Terapia Celular y Medicina Regenerativa, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain

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• Tania Fontanil,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

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• Santiago Cal,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

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• Marta Sanchez Pitiot,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unidad de Histopatología Molecular en Modelos Animales de Cáncer, Instituto Universitario Oncológico del Principado de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain

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• Jesus Otero,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unidad de Trasplantes, Terapia Celular y Medicina Regenerativa, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain

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• Alvaro Jesus Obaya

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Biologia Funcional, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

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