Successful Islet Transplantation After Purification in Iodixanol-UWS • IPITA 1999 Sydney • @1MEMO 20260326

Our studies demonstrated the importance of selection of : 1) the non-toxic islet isolation media iodixanol and UWS , and 2) islets that survive culture, for successful transplantation.

Pig islets after isolation in Iodixanol-UWS • 7th IPITA World Congress 1999 • 1MEMO_20260326_1 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • TakeNode 467e773c-fc4b-416e-99d5-c88df76ddff4

Josephine Rijkelijkhuizen at the 7th IPITA World Congress 1999 • 1MEMO_20260326_4 • Photo by Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • TakeNode 0c2ef6fb-bdff-4895-9dde-eb242f957cb9


Top 10 Paper

Our study — presented by our student researcher Josephine Rijkelijkhuizen —showing that cultured pig islets, isolated and purified in Iodixanol-UWS, can be transplanted without hyperacute rejection in cynomolgous monkeys , was selected in the top 10 outstanding studies at the memorable Sidney World Congress of the International Pancreas & Islet Transplant Association and the full paper included in a special issue of the journal Cell Transplantation .

Sydney Convention Center • 1MEMO_20260326_9 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles.Media • TakeNode 1ce6bbf2-adf1-4ce3-8c69-cd2d1339be81 • Sydney Convention Center - Darling Harbour (demolished in 2013)

youtube https://youtu.be/-p5lCyGr5Rs

FULL REPORT @ michelvanderburg•com
https://michelvanderburg.com/2026/03/26/


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New Powerful Tool For Human Islet Purification • OptiPrep-UWS ? • IPITA 1999 Sydney • @1MEMO 20260325

Poster (#P298) Michel van der Burg, 7th World Congress of the International Pancreas & Islet Transplant Association, Sydney (Australia) August 22–25, 1999 . 1MEMO_20260325_1 TakeNode 770715b8-ca68-4c00-8a24-24fe0d216c10

Outcome of the first series of human islet purifications with the novel Iodixanol -UWS density gradient — developed originally in the difficult model of pig islet isolation in our Leiden Islet Laboratory of the LUMC (2) — and, performed in 1998 during my working visit at the “fast track” center of the Diabetes Research Institute (Scientific director Prof. C. Ricordi, MD) of the University of Miami , in Miami, Florida, USA .

Notes

Abstracts of previous IPITA meetings had been published in print in scientific journals , however, at the turn of the millennium in 1999, with the rise of the internet , the 7th IPITA congress abstracts were published online only at the official website of the IPITA, in Oxford at the time (www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/ipita), and cannot be retrieved now.
I kept an archive with photocopies of our abstracts published in print in the Abstract Book of the 7th IPITA. Here that abstract of poster presentation P298 at page 169 in the Programme and Abstract Book.

7th IPITA World Congress 1999 • 1MEMO_20260325_2 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • TakeNode 9a8affeb-120a-4484-a390-fe058ac64af4


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Elfstedentocht 1942 Eleven Cities Skating Tour • @1MEMO 20260110

Elfstedentocht (Eleven Cities Skating Tour) Thursday 22 januari 1942 with extremely low temperatures, ranging from -33 Celcius at sunrise to -15 later that the day. Despite the German occupation, a record number of participants showed up at the start, 95% of whom managed to reach the finish. After the race, the Leeuwarden Diaconessen Hospital saw an influx of cold-related injuries. Many skaters suffered frostbite, including frostbitten eyes, ears, toes, hands, and even genitals. Some had to undergo amputations of their toes. Three tour riders later died in the hospital as a result of their frostbite injuries. (1).
Nazi-approved dutch cinema news 'Tobis Nieuws'.

#skate #race #Elfstedentocht #tour
#snow #winter #extreme #Holland #war #Tobis #film #news #cinema #Nazi #propaganda #Polygoon #OpenImages #1memo @1memo

Notes

Tocht van 1942. URL https://elfstedentocht.frl/tocht/de-tocht-van-1942/

Film source: Dutch newsreel by Polygoon (producer) in collaboration with the German Tobis Film for the Nazi controlled cinema news 'Tobis Nieuws' (Feb 1942). Courtesy of Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Open Images).

https://youtu.be/Two-sRYP20w

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Ski Holland Extreme Winter 1942 • @1MEMO 20260109

Skiing on the snow-covered Dutch dunes during the extreme winter of the war years 1941-42 in Holland. Nazi-approved dutch cinema news 'Tobis Nieuws'.

#snow #ski #winter #extreme #Holland #war #Tobis #film #news #cinema #Nazi #propaganda #Polygoon #OpenImages #1memo @1memo

Credits

Film source: Dutch newsreel by Polygoon (producer) in collaboration with the German Tobis Film for the Nazi controlled cinema news 'Tobis Nieuws' (Feb 1942). Courtesy of Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Open Images).

https://youtu.be/NXH44RYozus

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Parade • Igler Bergweihnacht #9 • Portrait #43 • @1MEMO 20251231 •

Still from the Christmas parade 2008 film.

Mountain Christmas in Igls, Tirol, 2008

Atmospheric, lantern-lit, traditional Mountain Christmas parade in the town center of Igls in Tyrol, featuring around 200 local villagers, mainly young kids, beautifully dressed as angels, night guards, farmers or shepherds and shepherd boys with animals, as well as Mary and baby Jesus in a traditional sledge with Joseph on foot, that night, December 23, 2008 in Igls, Innsbruck, Austria.


Watch the full film Mountain Christmas Tirol • Bergweihnacht Igls • 20090525 • URL https://youtu.be/SN3X2t-x9oQ

The 2008 Bergweihnacht music videos

Gloria • Christmas Music Edition • Tirol • 20171224 • The 2008 Bergweihnacht parade with music from Church Choir Igls-Lans • URL https://youtu.be/FZtnXDHY0gM

Christmas Song • Bergweihnacht Tyrol • 20161220 • Church Choir Igls-Lans in Igls, 2008 • URL https://youtu.be/Yv5LwF7BtrM

Christmas Carols • 20201223 • Church Choir Igls-Lans in Igls, 2008 • URL https://youtu.be/-lVw_fGIHac

More Bergweihnacht films of the years 2009 and 2011 in this previous post - URL https://1-memo.com/2025/12/23


TAGS #Austria #Bergweihnacht #Igls #Innsbruck #mountain #christmas #tradition #folklore #Tirol #Weihnachten #kerstmis #parade #Umzug #1MEMO


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Parade • Igler Bergweihnacht #8 • Portrait #42 • @1MEMO 20251230 •

Still from the Christmas parade 2008 film.

Mountain Christmas in Igls, Tirol, 2008

Atmospheric, lantern-lit, traditional Mountain Christmas parade in the town center of Igls in Tyrol, featuring around 200 local villagers, mainly young kids, beautifully dressed as angels, night guards, farmers or shepherds and shepherd boys with animals, as well as Mary and baby Jesus in a traditional sledge with Joseph on foot, that night, December 23, 2008 in Igls, Innsbruck, Austria.


Watch the full film Mountain Christmas Tirol • Bergweihnacht Igls • 20090525 • URL https://youtu.be/SN3X2t-x9oQ

The 2008 Bergweihnacht music videos

Gloria • Christmas Music Edition • Tirol • 20171224 • The 2008 Bergweihnacht parade with music from Church Choir Igls-Lans • URL https://youtu.be/FZtnXDHY0gM

Christmas Song • Bergweihnacht Tyrol • 20161220 • Church Choir Igls-Lans in Igls, 2008 • URL https://youtu.be/Yv5LwF7BtrM

Christmas Carols • 20201223 • Church Choir Igls-Lans in Igls, 2008 • URL https://youtu.be/-lVw_fGIHac

More Bergweihnacht films of the years 2009 and 2011 in this previous post - URL https://1-memo.com/2025/12/23


TAGS #Austria #Bergweihnacht #Igls #Innsbruck #mountain #christmas #tradition #folklore #Tirol #Weihnachten #kerstmis #parade #Umzug #1MEMO


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Parade • Igler Bergweihnacht #7 • Portrait #41 • @1MEMO 20251229 •

Still from the Christmas parade 2008 film.

Mountain Christmas in Igls, Tirol, 2008

Atmospheric, lantern-lit, traditional Mountain Christmas parade in the town center of Igls in Tyrol, featuring around 200 local villagers, mainly young kids, beautifully dressed as angels, night guards, farmers or shepherds and shepherd boys with animals, as well as Mary and baby Jesus in a traditional sledge with Joseph on foot, that night, December 23, 2008 in Igls, Innsbruck, Austria.


Watch the full film Mountain Christmas Tirol • Bergweihnacht Igls • 20090525 • URL https://youtu.be/SN3X2t-x9oQ

The 2008 Bergweihnacht music videos

Gloria • Christmas Music Edition • Tirol • 20171224 • The 2008 Bergweihnacht parade with music from Church Choir Igls-Lans • URL https://youtu.be/FZtnXDHY0gM

Christmas Song • Bergweihnacht Tyrol • 20161220 • Church Choir Igls-Lans in Igls, 2008 • URL https://youtu.be/Yv5LwF7BtrM

Christmas Carols • 20201223 • Church Choir Igls-Lans in Igls, 2008 • URL https://youtu.be/-lVw_fGIHac

More Bergweihnacht films of the years 2009 and 2011 in this previous post - URL https://1-memo.com/2025/12/23


TAGS #Austria #Bergweihnacht #Igls #Innsbruck #mountain #christmas #tradition #folklore #Tirol #Weihnachten #kerstmis #parade #Umzug #1MEMO


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Christmas Sheep • Igler Bergweihnacht #6 • Portrait #40 • @1MEMO 20251228 •

Video still of sheep & shepherd in the Mountain Christmas parade 2011.

Atmospheric, lantern-lit, traditional Mountain Christmas parade in the town center of Igls in Tyrol, featuring around 200 local villagers, mainly young kids, beautifully dressed as angels, night guards, farmers or shepherds and shepherd boys with animals, as well as Mary and baby Jesus in a traditional sledge with Joseph on foot, that night, December 23, 2011 in Igls, Innsbruck, Austria.

Bergweihnacht Igls in 2011

Christmas Street Parade Tyrol • 20211223 • URL https://youtu.be/n7rH04Ogx-4

More Bergweihnacht films of the years 2008 and 2009 in this previous post - URL https://1-memo.com/2025/12/23

TAGS #Austria #Bergweihnacht #Igls #Innsbruck #mountain #christmas #tradition #folklore #Tirol #Weihnachten #kerstmis #parade #Umzug #1MEMO


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Christmas Shepherd • Igler Bergweihnacht #5 • Portrait #39 • @1MEMO 20251227 •

Video still of shepherd in the Mountain Christmas parade 2011.

Atmospheric, lantern-lit, traditional Mountain Christmas parade in the town center of Igls in Tyrol, featuring around 200 local villagers, mainly young kids, beautifully dressed as angels, night guards, farmers or shepherds and shepherd boys with animals, as well as Mary and baby Jesus in a traditional sledge with Joseph on foot, that night, December 23, 2011 in Igls, Innsbruck, Austria.

Bergweihnacht Igls in 2011

Christmas Street Parade Tyrol • 20211223 • URL https://youtu.be/n7rH04Ogx-4

More Bergweihnacht films of the years 2008 and 2009 in this previous post - URL https://1-memo.com/2025/12/23

TAGS #Austria #Bergweihnacht #Igls #Innsbruck #mountain #christmas #tradition #folklore #Tirol #Weihnachten #kerstmis #parade #Umzug #1MEMO


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Mary & Baby Jesus • Igler Bergweihnacht #4 • Portrait #38 • @1MEMO 20251226 •

Image (video still) of Mary and baby Jesus in the Mountain Christmas parade 2011.

Atmospheric, lantern-lit, traditional Mountain Christmas parade in the town center of Igls in Tyrol, featuring around 200 local villagers, mainly young kids, beautifully dressed as angels, night guards, farmers or shepherds and shepherd boys with animals, as well as Mary and baby Jesus in a traditional sledge with Joseph on foot, that night, December 23, 2011 in Igls, Innsbruck, Austria.

Bergweihnacht Igls in 2011

Christmas Street Parade Tyrol • 20211223 • URL https://youtu.be/n7rH04Ogx-4

More Bergweihnacht films of the years 2008 and 2009 in this previous post - URL https://1-memo.com/2025/12/23

TAGS #Austria #Bergweihnacht #Igls #Innsbruck #mountain #christmas #tradition #folklore #Tirol #Weihnachten #kerstmis #parade #Umzug #1MEMO


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