Xenograft rejection of porcine islet-like cell clusters in normal, interferon-γ, and interferon-γ receptor deficient mice

Transplantation

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1446-1452

  Sandberg, Jan Olov ^a,b   Benda, Birgitta ^a   Lycke, Nils ^c   Korsgren, Olle ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MEDICAL PRODUCTS AGENCY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERFERON RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CYCLOSPORINE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTERFERON TYPE II; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RECEPTORS, INTERFERON; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0030961367     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199705270-00014     Document Type: Article

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