Potential implications of ABO blood group for vascular rejection in pig to human kidney xenotransplantation

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 278-284

  Oostingh, Gertie J ^a   Davies, Hugh F S ^b   Arch, Barbara N ^b   Bradley, J Andrew ^b   Taylor, Craig J ^a  

^a CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ABO blood group; Xenoreactive natural antibodies; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; GALACTOSYLGALACTOSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR REJECTION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HETEROPHILE; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; DISACCHARIDES; EPITOPES; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SWINE;

EID: 0042346178     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3089.2003.02060.x     Document Type: Article

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