Neural xenotransplantation: Pretreatment of porcine embryonic nigral tissue with anti-gal antibodies and complement is not toxic for the dopaminergic neurons

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 25-30

  Brevig, T ^a   Meyer, M ^b   Kristensen, T ^a   Zimmer, J ^b  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dopaminergic neurons; Graft pretreatment; Parkinson's disease; Porcine donor tissue; Ventral mesencephalon; Xenografts

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; IMMUNOGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SWINE; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0035084306     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/000000001783986954     Document Type: Article

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