Antibodies directed to pig non-Gal antigens in naïve and sensitized baboons

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 400-407

  Ezzelarab, Mohamed ^a   Hara, Hidetaka ^a   Busch, Jamie ^a   Rood, Pleunie P M ^a   Zhu, Xiaocheng ^a   Ibrahim, Zuhaib ^a   Ball, Suyapa ^b,c   Ayares, David ^b,c   Awwad, Michel ^b,c   Cooper, David K C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b REVIVICOR INC   (United States)

^c Revivicor Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

1,3 galactosyltransferase gene knockout; Anti pig antibodies; Baboon; Cytotoxicity; Gal 1,3Gal; Pig; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1,3 GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; COBROTOXIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BABOON; COMPLEMENT DEPENDENT CYTOTOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; KNOCKOUT GENE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; PAPIO ANUBIS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 33747603670     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2006.00320.x     Document Type: Article

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