Heterotopic cardiac xenotransplantation in rodents: Report of a refined technique in a hamster-to-rat model

Microsurgery

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 227-234

  Dedja, Arben ^a,b,f   Dall'olmo, Luigi ^a,b   Cadrobbi, Roberto ^b,c   Baldan, Nicola ^a,b,c   Fante, Fabio ^a,b   Calabrese, Fiorella ^a   Rigotti, Paolo ^a,b,c   Ferraresso, Mariano ^d   Delriviere, Luc ^e   Cozzi, Emanuele ^a,b,c   Ancona, Ermanno ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Consorzio Ric Trapianto d'Organi ^*  (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f Clinica Chirurgica II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HAMSTER; HEART PRESERVATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HETEROTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 20144387911     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20101     Document Type: Article

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