Prolongation of pig islet xenograft survival in rats immunosuppressed with FK506

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 149-156

  Tze, W J ^a   Tai, J ^a   Cheung, S S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

FK506; Immunohistochemistry; Pig islets; Rat; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; TACROLIMUS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN RELEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANIMALS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INSULIN; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY; MALE; PERFUSION; RATS; RATS, INBRED ACI; RATS, WISTAR; SWINE; TACROLIMUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0030799933     PISSN: 01688227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8227(97)00068-5     Document Type: Article

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