Role of the thymus in transplantation tolerance in miniature swine: IV. The thymus is required during the induction phase, but not the maintenance phase, of renal allograft tolerance

Transplantation

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 979-985

  Vagefi, Parsia A ^a   Ierino, Francesco L ^a   Gianello, Pierre R ^a   Shimizu, Akira ^a   Kamano, Chisako ^a   Sachs, David H ^a   Yamada, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HLA MATCHING; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 1942451817     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000116416.10799.C6     Document Type: Article

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