Videomicroscopic imaging of graft mucosa for monitoring immunosuppressive therapy after small intestinal transplantation in rats

Transplantation

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1555-1561

  Timmermann, Wolfgang ^a,c   Hoppe, Hanno ^a   Otto, Christoph ^a,b   Gasser, Martin ^a   Vowinkel, Thorsten ^a   Gassel, Andrea Maria ^a   Meyer, Detlef ^a   Gassel, Heinz Jochen ^a   Ulrichs, Karin ^a,b   Thiede, Arnulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Transplantation Immunology Unit   (Germany)

^c Department of Surgery ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TACROLIMUS;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOLOGY; IMAGING; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINE GRAFT; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MONITORING, IMMUNOLOGIC; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED LEW; TACROLIMUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032974799     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199906270-00009     Document Type: Article

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