Predominant role of the Fab fragment in delaying hyperacute rejection in guinea pig-to-rat xenotransplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 395-397

  Urbani, Lucio ^a   Fabre, Monique ^b   Cardoso, Jorge ^a   Lambin, Patrick ^c   Devillier, Philippe ^d   Soubrane, Olivier ^a   Houssin, Didier ^a   Gautreau, Chantal ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA TRANSFUSION SANGUINE   (France)

^d REIMS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^e université Paris Cité   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EDEMA; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GUINEA PIG; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ST SEGMENT; SURVIVAL TIME; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 0032529655     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199808150-00018     Document Type: Article

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