Retinal progenitor cell xenografts to the pig retina: Immunological reactions

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 603-612

  Warfvinge, Karin ^a   Kiilgaard, Jens F ^b   Klassen, Henry ^c,e   Zamiri, Parisa ^d   Scherfig, Erik ^b   Streilein, Wayne ^d   Prause, Jan U ^c,e   Young, Michael J ^d  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Retina; Stem cell; Transplant; Xenografts

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHOROID; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LASER; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CELL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA VASCULITIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SWINE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYMPHOCYTES; MICE; RETINA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

MURINAE; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 33845418755     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/000000006783981594     Document Type: Article

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