Involvement of endothelin in graft-versus-host disease after rat small bowel transplantation

Transplant International

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 121-124

  Hiroyasu, Shungo ^a   Shiraishi, Masayuki ^a   Kusano, Toshiomi ^a   Muto, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endothelin, small bowel transplantation, rat; Graft versus host disease, endothelin, small bowel transplantation; Small bowel transplantation, rat, endothelin

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY; LUNG; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ENDOTHELIN-1; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED LEW; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0031039326     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001470050024     Document Type: Article

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