Heart valve dysfunction resulting from cellular rejection in a novel heterotopic transplantation rat model

Transplant International

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2000, Pages

  Oei, F B S ^a   Welters, M J P ^a   Vaessen, L M B ^a   Marquet, R L ^a   Zondervan, P E ^a   Weimar, W ^a   Bogers, A J J C ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aortic valves; Implantation model; Rat; Rejection; Valve dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; BROWN NORWAY RAT; GRAFT REJECTION; ISOGRAFT; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; AORTIC VALVE; GRAFT REJECTION; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, ISOGENEIC;

EID: 0001704831     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2000.tb02097.x     Document Type: Article

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