Effect of leflunomide and cyclosporine on graft survival and changes in lymphocyte phenotypes in a rat heart allotransplantation model

Transplant Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 48-52

  Johansen, Allan ^a   Jensen, Jørgen E ^a   Horn, Hans C ^a   Nielsen, Bjarne ^a   Kemp, Ejvind ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYCLOSPORIN; LEFLUNOMIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 0032029492     PISSN: 09663274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-3274(98)80034-8     Document Type: Article

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