Detection of host and donor cells in sex-mismatched rat nerve allografts using RT-PCR for a Y chromosome (H-Y) marker

Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 140-146

  Midha, Rajiv ^a,d   Ramakrishna, Vankayalapati ^a,b   Munro, Catherine A ^a   Matsuyama, Takeshi ^a,c   Gorczynski, Reginald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Urology   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Nerve allografts; Peripheral nerve injury; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; RNA;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MALE; MOLECULAR PROBE; NERVE GRAFT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHWANN CELL; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CYCLOSPORINE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; H-Y ANTIGEN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; PERONEAL NERVE; RATS; RATS, INBRED ACI; RATS, INBRED LEW; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0033803180     PISSN: 10859489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8027.2000.00017.x     Document Type: Article

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