Out Of Service | 20140911 | 1-memo•com | In the morning of 9/11 2001 logistics forced me to officially announce a temporarily – 1 week – ‘out of service’ of our Leiden islet isolation and transplant center. Our center was started earlier that summer of 2001 at the Leiden University Medical Center. So, I decided to have a short vacation abroad – heaven, after being on call 24/7 almost non stop for years. Later that day at home, I was downstairs watching TV — because upstairs near my workroom the central heating was being replaced – when I saw the CNN breaking news about the plane crashing into the World Trade Center. That day would become a landmark in history and the course of my life.
Background image : Microscopy picture I took of purified human Islets of Langerhans – tiny clumps (size around 1/10 mm or 1/25 inch) of 10s to 1000s of cells that produce hormones like insulin – these cells are just visible when you enlarge this 50x microscopy picture : as tiny translucent ‘balls’ or ‘spheres’. The red color is from a stain that binds to the insulin cells.
Iodixanol-UWS purified human islets, stained with dithizone. Original magnification 50x.
Title: mvdb20041118_114555m0400.tif
Creator: Michael P.M. van der Burg
Caption/Description: Iodixanol-UWS purified human islets, stained with dithizone. Original magnification 50x. Copyright Notice: Copyright © 2004 M.P.M. van der Burg. All rights reserved. Digital Creation Date: 18 Nov 2004
References
Image published in : Transplantatie van eilandjes van Langerhans bij patiënten met diabetes mellitus type 1. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 2005 1 januari;149(1) – URL https://www.ntvg.nl/system/files/publications/2005100120001a.pdf
Efficacy of the novel iodixanol-UWS density gradient for human islet purification (Presentation publ. Archive Org – michelvanderburg, 19990125 )
https://archive.org/details/EfficacyOfTheNovelIodixanol-uwsDensityGradientForHumanIslet
25 Years of the Ricordi Automated Method for Islet Isolation. Piemonti L, Pileggi A. in CellR4 2013; 1(1): e128. – URL https://www.cellr4.org/article/128
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