Prolonged survival of discordant porcine islet xenografts

Transplantation

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1100-1102

  Marchetti, P ^a,c   Scharp, D W ^b   Finke, E H ^b   Swanson, C J ^b   Olack, B J ^b   Gerasimidi Vazeou, D ^b   Giannarelli, R ^a   Navalesi, R ^a   Lacy, P E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Metabolic Diseases   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; OKT 4; STREPTOZOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FREEZING; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; SWINE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THAWING; TISSUE CULTURE; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTILYMPHOCYTE SERUM; GRAFT SURVIVAL; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0029926809     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199604150-00019     Document Type: Article

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