Thymus requirement and antigen dependency in the 'infectious' tolerance pathway in transplant recipients

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 5765-5772

  Onodera, Kazuhiko ^a   Volk, Hans Dieter ^c   Ritter, Thomas ^c   Kupiec Weglinski, Jerzy W ^a,b,d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIGEN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECIPIENT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD4; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CLONAL ANERGY; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; ISOANTIGENS; MALE; MICE; NEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, HEREDITARY; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY;

EID: 0032526605     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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