Liver transplants contribute to their own success

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 163-165

  Starzl, Thomas E ^a   Murase, Noriko ^a   Thomson, Angus ^a   Demetris, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 0030020513     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0296-163     Document Type: Short Survey

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