Successful Formation of a Chimeric Human Thymus Allograft Following Transplantation of Cultured Postnatal Human Thymus

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 998-1005

  Markert, M Louise ^a   Kostyu, Donna D ^a   Ward, Frances E ^a   McLaughlin, Tanya M ^a   Watson, T J ^a   Buckley, Rebecca H ^a   Schiff, Sherrie E ^a   Ungerleider, Ross M ^a   Gaynor, J William ^a   Oldham, Keith T ^a   Mahaffey, Samuel M ^a   Ballow, Mark ^b   Driscoll, Deborah A ^c   Hale, Laura P ^a   Haynes, Barton F ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; DIGEORGE SYNDROME; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PATHOLOGY; THYMUS; TRANSPLANTATION;

CHIMERA; DIGEORGE SYNDROME; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INFANT; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0031568004     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.158.2.998     Document Type: Article

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