Suppressed alloreactivity and mixed chimerism in rats with accepted cardiac allografts by intrathymic injection of donor bone marrow

Transplant International

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 262-267

  Matsuura, Takeshi ^a   Imanishi, Masaaki ^b   Hara, Yasushi ^b   Nishioka, Tsukasa ^b   Kunikata, Seiji ^b   Akiyama, Takahiro ^b   Kurita, Takashi ^b  

^a Osaka Teishin Hospital   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bone marrow cells, mixed chimerism, rats; Cardiac transplantation, rat, bone marrow; Chimerism; Intrathymic donor bone marrow; Rats, intrathymic bone marrow cells

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ALLOIMMUNITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHIMERA; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE TEST, MIXED; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED LEW; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0030842818     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001470050055     Document Type: Article

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