Effect of single-dose administration of FK-506 on allogeneic limb transplantation in rats: Is there an optimal timing of its administration?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1653-1658

  Gohda, Taketoshi ^a   Iwasaki, Norimasa ^a   Yoshioka, Chika ^a   Minami, Akio ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TACROLIMUS;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSAGE FORM; DRUG EFFECT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INBRED STRAIN; LIMB; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECIPIENT; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; GRAFT REJECTION; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED ACI; RATS, INBRED LEW; SKIN; TACROLIMUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, ISOGENEIC;

EID: 0037446146     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000053548.45063.E8     Document Type: Article

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