Pancreas Procurement and Preservation for Islet Transplantation: Personal Considerations

Table 2

Comparison between the different preservation solutions.

Comparison	Superior	Human/animal study	Reference
MK versus UW	MK	Porcine	[12]
MK versus UW	MK	Human	[41] (in discussion)
MK versus ET-K	MK	Rat	[12]
MK versus M-HTK	MK	Porcine	[43]
MK versus HNC	MK	Human	[41]

UW: University of Wisconsin solution;MK: modified ET-Kyoto solution (ET-Kyoto solution with ulinastatin); ET-K: ET-Kyoto solution; M-HTK: modified histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate solution (HTK solution with ulinastatin); HNC: Celsior solution with HES and nafamostat mesilate.