Conditioning of liver grafts by donor bolus pretreatment with epoprostenol: In vivo microscopy analysis of impact on ischemia/reperfusion injury in rat liver transplants

Transplantation

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-17

  Anthuber, Matthias ^a   Farkas, Stefan ^a   Rihl, Markus ^a   Menger, Michael D ^b   Jauch, Karl Walter ^a   Schildberg, Friedrich W ^a   Messmer, Konrad ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTACYCLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT REJECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; LIVER INJURY; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER SINUSOID; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY; REVASCULARIZATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CELL ADHESION; EPOPROSTENOL; LEUKOCYTES; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PERFUSION; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW;

EID: 0029979901     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199607150-00003     Document Type: Article

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