Autotransplantation of the spleen in the rat: Donor leukocytes of the splenic fragment survive implantation to migrate and proliferate in the host

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 287, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 357-364

  Westermann, Jürgen ^a   Pabst, Reinhard ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lymphocytes; Macrophages; Proliferation; Rat (Lewis); Regeneration; Spleen; Traffic; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOID ORGAN; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLEEN TRANSPLANTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MACROPHAGES; MALE; NECROSIS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; REGENERATION; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; SPLEEN; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0031049475     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410050761     Document Type: Article

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