Xenotransplanting hepatocytes: The triumph of a cup half full

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 26-27

  Platt, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LIVER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SHORT SURVEY; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLOSPORINE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; RABBITS; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0031022695     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0197-26     Document Type: Short Survey

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