Antibody-induced transplant arteriosclerosis is prevented by graft expression of anti-oxidant and anti-apoptotic genes

Nature Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1392-1396

  Hancock, Wayne W ^a,b   Buelow, Roland ^c   Sayegh, Mohamed H ^d   Turka, Laurence A ^e  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b LenkoSite   (United States)

^c GENZYME CORPORATION   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 39; HEME OXYGENASE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART GRAFT; HEART PROTECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CD40 LIGAND; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEME OXYGENASE (DECYCLIZING); HEME OXYGENASE-1; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, KNOCKOUT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031757984     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/3982     Document Type: Article

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