Vascular thymus transplantation in rats: Technique, morphology, and function

Transplantation

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 669-678

  Kampinga, Jaap ^a   Schuurman, Henk Jan ^b,c   Pol, Gerda H ^a   Bartels, Hans ^a   Broekhuizen, Roel ^b   Vaessen, Lennard M B ^a   Tielen, Frans J ^d   Rozing, Jan ^d   Blaauw, Egbert H ^a   Roser, Bruce ^e   Aspinall, Richard ^e   Nieuwenhuis, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

^e Entropic Cambridge Research Laboratory Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RATS; RATS, NUDE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0025027660     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199010000-00028     Document Type: Article

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