Characterization of the swine major histocompatibility complex alleles at eight loci in Westran pigs

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 303-307

  Lee, Jun Heon ^a,b   Simond, Denbigh ^a   Hawthorne, Wayne J ^a   Walters, Stacey N ^a   Patel, Anita T ^a   Smith, Douglas M ^c   O'Connell, Phillip J ^a   Moran, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Inbred; Major histocompatibility complex; Pig; Polymorphism; Swine; Swine leukocyte antigen; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; SWINE LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ALLOGRAFT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DQA1 GENE; DQB1 GENE; DRA1 GENE; DRB1 GENE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOSITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SLA 1 GENE; SLA 2 GENE; SLA 3 GENE; SLA 6 GENE; SWINE; XENOGRAFT;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY;

EID: 20944437195     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2005.00231.x     Document Type: Article

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