Human ABO blood group is important in survival and function of porcine working hearts

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 286-293

  Manji, Rizwan A ^a   Manji, Jacqueline S ^a   Koshal, Arvind ^a   Korbutt, Gregory S ^a   Rajotte, Ray V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gal; ABO blood group; Working heart; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GROUP B ANTIBODY; CREATINE KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BLOOD LEVEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDEMA; HEART FUNCTION; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SURVIVAL; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CREATINE KINASE; EDEMA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; HEART; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIUM; PERFUSION; PHENOTYPE; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0037353528     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-6143.2003.00055.x     Document Type: Article

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