Improved experimental cardiac xenograft survival with cyclophosphamide and intrathymic donor cells

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 260-263

  Mohiuddin, Muhammad M ^a   Shen, Zhenya ^a   Yokoyama, Hitoshi ^a   Goldstein, Charles ^a   DiSesa, Verdi J ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac xenotransplantation; Cyclophosphamide; Intrathymic treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242844278     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.1996.tb00146.x     Document Type: Article

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