No evidence of infection with porcine endogenous retrovirus in recipients of porcine islet-cell xenografts

Lancet

Volumn 352, Issue 9129, 1998, Pages 695-699

  Heneine, Walid ^a,d   Tibell, Annika ^a   Switzer, William M ^a   Sandstrom, Paul ^b   Resales, Guillermo Vazquez ^c   Mathews, Aprille ^a   Korsgren, Olle ^a   Chapman, Louisa E ^a   Folks, Thomas M ^a   Groth, Carl G ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

15 DEOXYSPERGUALIN; AZATHIOPRINE; C PEPTIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PREDNISOLONE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENZYME ASSAY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; SWINE; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 0032578251     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(98)07145-1     Document Type: Article

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