Immunologic 'ignorance' of vascularized organ transplants in the absence of secondary lymphoid tissue

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 686-688

  Lakkis, Fadi G ^a   Arakelov, Alexandr ^a   Konieczny, Bogumila T ^a   Inoue, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOUSE; MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; ISOANTIGENS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PEYER'S PATCHES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034088031     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/76267     Document Type: Article

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