Augmentation of Dendritic Cells in Murine Organ Donors by Flt3 Ligand Alters the Balance between Transplant Tolerance and Immunity

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 159, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 5483-5491

  Steptoe, Raymond J ^a   Fu, Fumin ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Drakes, Maureen L ^a   Lu, Lina ^a   Demetris, A Jake ^b   Qian, Shiguang ^a   McKenna, Hilary J ^d   Thomson, Angus W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLT3 LIGAND PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITIC CELL; DRUG EFFECT; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART MUSCLE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; IMMUNOLOGY; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DENDRITIC CELLS; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MYOCARDIUM; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0031302402     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.159.11.5483     Document Type: Article

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