Absence of humoral and cellular alloreactivity in baboons sensitized to pig antigens

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 27-32

  Baertschiger, R M ^a,b   Dor, F J M F ^a   Prabharasuth, D ^a   Kuwaki, K ^a   Cooper, D K C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alloantigens; Baboon; Cross reactive antibodies; Pig; Xenoantigens; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIGEN; ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; GALACTOSYLGALACTOSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ALLOGRAFT; ALLOIMMUNITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BABOON; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COMPLEMENT DEPENDENT CYTOTOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIZATION; SWINE; XENOGRAFT; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODY FORMATION; CROSS REACTIONS; DISACCHARIDES; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNIZATION; ISOANTIGENS; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE TEST, MIXED; MONOCYTES; PAPIO; SWINE;

EID: 0742305872     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2004.00075.x     Document Type: Article

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