Current status of xenotransplantation

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 62, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1997, Pages

  Wallwork, John ^a  

^a PAPWORTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOREGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0031468494     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5273(97)00210-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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