Prevention of allogeneic fetal rejection by tryptophan catabolism

Science

Volumn 281, Issue 5380, 1998, Pages 1191-1193

  Munn, David H ^a   Zhou, Min ^a   Attwood, John T ^a   Bondarev, Igor ^a   Conway, Simon J ^a   Marshall, Brendan ^a   Brown, Corrie ^b   Mellor, Andrew L ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 METHYLTRYPTOPHAN; CD8 ANTIGEN; INDOLEAMINE 2,3 DIOXYGENASE; OXYGENASE INHIBITOR; PLACEBO; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ALLOGENEIC RESTRICTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WASTAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032555614     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5380.1191     Document Type: Article

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21. We thank A. Wylds, D. McCool, and R. Rogers for technical assistance; E Simpson, S. Rastan, and S. Goldman for critiquing; and A. Compton for preparing the manuscript. Supported by the MCG Research Institute (A.L.M. and S.J.C.), NIH awards (D.H.M. and S.J.C.), the March of Dimes (S.J.C.), the MCG Department of Medicine, and the Carlos and Marguerite Mason Trust.