Effect of human immunoglobulins on the immunogenicity of porcine bioprostheses

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2001, Pages S396-S400

  Schussler, Olivier ^a,b   Shen, Ming ^a,b   Shen, Lin ^a,b   Carpentier, Sophie M ^a,b   Kaveri, Srini ^a,b   Carpentier, Alain ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b HÔPITAL BROUSSAIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTARALDEHYDE; HUMAN IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY TITER; CALCIFICATION; COCULTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE BIOPROSTHESIS; IMMUNOGENICITY; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SWINE; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; BIOPROSTHESIS; CALCINOSIS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; STERILIZATION; SWINE; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 0035013598     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)02523-1     Document Type: Article

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