Mouse-to-rabbit xenotransplantation: A new small animal model of hyperacute rejection mediated by the classical complement pathway

Transplantation

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 360-365

  Kerr, Stephen R ^a   Dalmasso, Agustin P ^a   Apasova, Elena V ^a   Chen, Sally S ^a   Kirschfink, Michael ^b   Matas, Arthur J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL DAMAGE; CELL INFILTRATION; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SWINE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; XENOGRAFT; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 0033557260     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199902150-00004     Document Type: Article

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