Prolonged discordant cardiac xenograft survival in newborn recipients

Circulation

Volumn 96, Issue 9 SUPPL., 1997, Pages

  Xu, He ^a   Gundry, Steven R ^a,d   Hill, Arthur C ^a   Zuppan, Craig W ^c   Morimoto, Toro ^a   Matsumiya, Goro ^a   Fagoaga, Omar ^b   Bailey, Leonard L ^a  

^a Cardiac Transplantation Laboratory   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Immunology; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; GOAT; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART GRAFT; LYMPHOID CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES; GOATS; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; MYOCARDIUM; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0343554029     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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