Xenogeneic cell therapy: Current progress and future developments in porcine cell transplantation

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 525-539

  Edge, Albert S B ^a   Gosse, Marilyn E ^a   Dinsmore, Jonathan ^a  

^a GENVEC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell transplants; Cellular therapy; Human diseases

Indexed keywords

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SWINE; TISSUE CULTURE; XENOGRAFT; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0031738409     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-6897(98)00043-8     Document Type: Review

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