Transfusion of pig red blood cells into baboons [1]

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 295-297

  Dor, F J M F ^a   Rouhani, F J ^a   Cooper, D K C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1,3 GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; ALPHA GALACTOSIDASE; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AUTOPSY; BABOON; BLOOD GROUP B; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMATOCRIT; HYPERACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KNOCKOUT GENE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; PAPIO; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION CHIMERA; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 2442504901     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2004.00123.x     Document Type: Letter

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