Protochordate concordant xenotransplantation settings reveal outbreaks of donor cells and divergent life span traits

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 983-991

  Simon Blecher, Noa ^a,b   Achituv, Yair ^b   Rinkevich, Baruch ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Botryllus; Chimerism; DES, double edged sword; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA MINISATELLITE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BLOOD CELL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHIMERA; CHORDATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GROWTH RATE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IRRADIATION; LIFESPAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

BOTRYLLOIDES; BOTRYLLUS; MAMMALIA; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 3242692211     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2004.04.003     Document Type: Article

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