Evidence that retinal pigment epithelium functions as an immune-privileged tissue

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3467-3473

  Wenkel, H ^a   Streilein, J W ^a  

^a SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAS ANTIGEN;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOINCOMPATIBILITY; IMMUNOGENICITY; KIDNEY CAPSULE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; CONJUNCTIVA; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNIZATION; ISOANTIGENS; KIDNEY; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RETINA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC;

EID: 0033775229     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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