Anti-GAL IgG antibodies in sera of newborn humans and baboons and its significance in pig xenotransplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 182-186

  Minanov, Oktavijan P ^b   Itescu, Silviu ^b   Neethling, Francisca A ^b   Morgenthau, Adam S ^b   Kwiatkowski, Pawel ^b   Cooper, D K C ^b   Michler, Robert E ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BABOON; COMPLEMENT DEPENDENT CYTOTOXICITY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL LINE; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; FETAL BLOOD; GALACTOSIDES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY; PAPIO; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC;

EID: 0030899506     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199701270-00002     Document Type: Article

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