Increase in orthotopic murine corneal transplantation rejection rate with anterior synechiae

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2422-2426

  Yamagami, Satoru ^a,b   Tsuru, Tadahiko ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2;

ADHESION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA OPACITY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; GRAFT REJECTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SUTURING METHOD;

ADHESIONS; ANIMALS; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; CYTOKINES; GRAFT REJECTION; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IRIS DISEASES; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RISK FACTORS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 0032823368     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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