Pre-transplant blood transfusion induces tolerance to hamster cardiac xenografts in athymic nude rats

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 247-257

  Vriens, Patrick W ^a,b   Stoot, Jan H ^a,b   Hoyt, Grant ^a   Scheringa, Marcel ^b   Bouwman, Eelco ^b   Robbins, Robert C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Athymic nude rat; Blood transfusion; Tolerance; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GRAFT REJECTION; HAMSTER; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SERUM; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CRICETINAE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GRAFT ENHANCEMENT, IMMUNOLOGIC; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LEUKOCYTE TRANSFUSION; MESOCRICETUS; MICE; MYOCARDIUM; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, NUDE; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE EXTRACTS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0034758778     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3089.2001.00102.x     Document Type: Article

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