Effect of peritransplant FTY720 alone or in combination with post-transplant tacrolimus in a rat model of cardiac allotransplantation

Transplant International

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 288-294

  Xu, Min ^a   Pirenne, Jacques ^a   Antoniou, Efstathios A ^a   Afford, Simon C ^a   D'Silva, Milbhor ^a   McMaster, Paul ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FTY720, tacrolimus, heart transplantation; Heart transplantation, FTY720, tacrolimus; Rat, FTY720, heart transplantation; Tacrolimus, FTY720, heart transplantation

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; FINGOLIMOD; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; TACROLIMUS;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FUNGUS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SPHINGOSINE; TACROLIMUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0031879884     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001470050144     Document Type: Article

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