Patent ID: 8642315
Filing Date: 2014-02-04
Classification: A01N,A61P

Abstract:
1. A process for preserving pancreatic islets intended to be transplanted, including the following steps: introducing an initial volume of culture medium and pancreatic islets into a culture container, said pancreatic islets being contained in a preparation comprising exocrine tissue that releases enzymes with concentrations that are detrimental to the pancreatic islets, providing a culture medium source having new culture medium, replacing, at time intervals below 8 hours, the culture medium in said culture container with said new culture medium from said source so as to renew the culture medium contained in said container, so that the enzymes released by exocrine tissue are removed from the culture container, forming the culture container by a flexible pouch preventing adhesion of the pancreatic islets, providing the culture container with at least one deflector arranged on a direct flow path between an inlet orifice and an outlet orifice of the culture container, and providing said deflector in the form of a weld extending perpendicularly from a side on which said inlet and outlet orifices are arranged, said weld being formed between said inlet and outlet orifices.