Xenotransplantation: Perspectives and limits

Blood Purification

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 322-328

  Hammer, Claus ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ethics; Immunology; Limits; Species specificity; Virology; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; MICROCIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL TIME; SWINE; TERMINAL DISEASE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; XENOGRAFT; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; HUMANS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0035103468     PISSN: 02535068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000046961     Document Type: Conference Paper

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