Transplantation tolerance and chimerism: What are they and do we need them? [1]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2213-2214

  Hettiaratchy, Shehan ^a  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; CHIMERA; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE; ANIMAL; HAND; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HAND; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; TRANSPLANTATION CHIMERA; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY;

EID: 3242707861     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000123577.13397.D6     Document Type: Letter

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