HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor cerivastatin prolonged rat cardiac allograft survival by blocking intercellular signals

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 440-445

  Horimoto, Hitoshi ^a,b   Nakai, Yasunari ^a   Nakahara, Ken Ich ^a   Nomura, Yukiya ^a   Mieno, Shigetoshi ^a   Sasaki, Shinjiro ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CERIVASTATIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; DRUG EFFECT; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; INTERLEUKIN-2; LEUKOCYTES; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE TEST, MIXED; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN-1; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PYRIDINES; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036126837     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(01)00403-X     Document Type: Article

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