Prospects in Xenotransplantation: A Personal View

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 685-687

  Groth, C G ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; ETHICS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; XENOGRAFT; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; HUMANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; NEURONS; PARKINSON DISEASE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 34147121018     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.01.061     Document Type: Article

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