Hamster cardiac xenografts are protected against antibody mediated damage, early after transplantation to Lewis rats

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 239-246

  Vriens, Patrick W ^a,b   Pollard, Jeffrey D ^a   Hoyt, Grant ^a   Morris, Randall E ^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

Accommodation; Antibody; Leflunomide; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

2 CYANO N (4 CYANOPHENYL) 3 CYCLOPROPYL 3 OXOPROPIONAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; LEFLUNOMIDE; TERIFLUNOMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAFT REJECTION; HAMSTER; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOMODULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; XENOGRAFT;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HETEROPHILE; CRICETINAE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MYOCARDIUM; NITRILES; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; REOPERATION; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC;

EID: 0034758916     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3089.2001.00104.x     Document Type: Article

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