Vascularized thymic lobe transplantation in a pig-to-baboon model: A novel strategy for xenogeneic tolerance induction and T-cell reconstitution

Transplantation

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1783-1790

  Yamamoto, Shin ^a   Lavelle, John M ^a   Vagefi, Parsia A ^a   Arakawa, Hitoshi ^a   Samelson Jones, Emma ^a   Moran, Shannon ^a   Teranishi, Katsuhito ^a   Kamano, Chisako ^a   Fishman, Jay ^a   Awwad, Michel ^b   Neville, David M ^c   Shimizu, Akira ^a   Sykes, Megan ^a   Sachs, David H ^a   Yamada, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Immerge Biotherapeutics Inc   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

hDAF pig; Pig to baboon; Thymus transplantation; Tolerance; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45RA ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN; GALACTOSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABOON; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOADSORPTION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SPLENECTOMY; SWINE; T CELL DEPLETION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE; XENOGRAFT; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFUSION; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PAPIO; SWINE; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 30144442608     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000184445.70285.4b     Document Type: Article

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