Yesterday, Jan 14th 2025, I posted a video of the slideshow and audio track of my talk on the innovative Percoll-UWS density gradient for the purification of canine and human pancreatic islets, at the 5th Congres European Society for Organ Transplantation, Maastricht (The Netherlands) October 7–10, 1991 (1,2).

That paper was presented the next year , in a poster discussion I co-chaired at the 1st International Congress of the Cell Transplant Society in Pittsburgh (USA) May 31–June 3, 1992 (3,4).
The conference proceedings paper of that meeting has been published in Transplantation Proceedings in 1992 (5).

The dutch publisher Elsevier, is publishing Transplantation Proceedings from 1997, and provides (restricted) access to full text online.

Science in print is out of date ?

Previous editions (before 1997) of the journal Transplantation Proceedings , were published by Appleton & Lange, like this 1992 paper (5), and full text is not found online. Also, I am afraid, many libraries have thrown away their stocks of print editions. I, myself, have not kept the bulky Transplantation Proceedings volumes I once bought … thrown away for lack of space , and what I kept is not within reach in practice, piled up in the attic, like the many hundreds of scientific slides…

A pdf copy of that 1992 paper is now available below (5) ;) And copies will be added in upcoming updates of those previous posts.

Notes

1) Van der Burg MPM, Guicherit OR, Prins FA, Scherft JP, Frölich M, Gooszen HG. Percoll in UW: efficient iso-osmotic canine and human islet purification. 5th Congres European Society for Organ Transplantation, Maastricht (The Netherlands) October 7–10, 1991.

2) Percoll UWS Purification Pancreatic Islets • ESOT 1991 Talk • Michel van der Burg • Miracles.Media • @1MEMO 20250114 • URL michelvanderburg.com/2025/10/14/

3) Van der Burg MPM, Guicherit OR, Scherft JP, Bruijn JA, Frölich M, Gooszen HG. Islet preservation during isolation: a new concept in cell transplantation. First International Congress of the Cell Transplant Society, Pittsburgh (USA) May 31 – June 3, 1992.

4) Pittsburgh 1992 Cell Transplant Society • 20240812 • Michel van der Burg • michelvanderburg•com URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2024/08/12/pittsburgh-1992-cell-transplant-society-20240812/

5) Van der Burg MPM, Guicherit OR, Frölich M, Bruijn JA, Gooszen HG. Islet preservation during isolation: a new concept in cell transplantation. Transplant Proc. 1992 Dec;24(6):2840-1. PMID: 1465965.

SCAN PDF FILE available below

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