Histological and immunohistological study of cryopreserved aortic valve grafts: The possibility of a clinical application for cryopreserved aortic valve xenograft

Artificial Organs

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 407-415

  Yokose, Shogo ^a   Fukunaga, Shuji ^a   Tayama, Eiki ^a   Kato, Seiya ^a   Aoyagi, Shigeaki ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allotransplantaion; Aortic valve; Cryopreservation; Homograft; Rejection; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; GRAFTS;

ALLOTRANSPLANTAIA; AORTIC VALVES; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CRYO-PRESERVATION; CRYOPRESERVED; HOMOGRAFT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PRESERVATION TECHNIQUES; REJECTION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS PRESERVATION;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ALLOGRAFT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA MEDIA; AORTA VALVE; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; INTIMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; XENOGRAFT; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 0036091073     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1594.2002.06974.x     Document Type: Article

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