Surgical technique for vascularized thymus transplantation in mice

Microsurgery

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 56-60

  Jiang, Jifu ^a   Wang, Hao ^a   Madrenas, Joaquin ^a,b,c   Zhong, Robert ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^c ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d London Hlth Sci Ctr Univ Campus ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYMUS TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RANDOM ALLOCATION; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032965869     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2752(1999)19:2<56::AID-MICR3>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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