Human xenoreactivity is reduced in mice bearing porcine antisense α(1,3) galactosyltransferase cDNA

Acta Pharmacologica Sinica

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 231-238

  Ma, Y H ^a   Zhou, X G ^a   Hu, J H ^a   Fei, J ^a   Xia, G H ^a   Guo, L H ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Antisense DNA; Epitopes; Fluorescent antibody technique; Galactosyltransferases; Heterologous transplantation; Reverse polymerase chain reaction; Southern blotting; Swine

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EPITOPE; GALACTOSE; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOUSE; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPLEEN; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; XENOGRAFT; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; SWINE;

ANIMAL; DNA, ANTISENSE; EPITOPES; GALACTOSE; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMAN; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NECROSIS; SPLEEN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0035104486     PISSN: 02539756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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