Organ culture for thymus transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 444-448

  Hong, Richard ^a,b   Moore, Ann L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DIGEORGE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ORGAN CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMUS; THYMUS TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

DIGEORGE SYNDROME; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROTOMY; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0030046394     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199602150-00023     Document Type: Article

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