Anti-galactose-α(1,3) galactose antibody production in α1,3-galactosyltransferase gene knockout mice after xeno and allo transplantation

Transplant Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 129-137

  Chong, Anita S F ^a   Blinder, Leonard ^a   Ma, Lianli ^a   Yin, Dengping ^a   Shen, Jikun ^a   Williams, James W ^a   Byrne, Gerry ^b   Schwarz, Alex ^b   Diamond, Lisa S ^b   Logan, John E ^b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Nextran   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti 1,3gal antibodies; Galactosyltransferase knock out; Humoral responses; Mice; Xenoantibodies; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSE; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HETEROPHILE; DISACCHARIDES; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0033832480     PISSN: 09663274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-3274(00)00017-4     Document Type: Article

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