The gradual onset brain death model: A relevant model to study organ donation and its consequences on the outcome after transplantation

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 363-371

  Kolkert, Joe L P ^a   'T Hart, Nils A ^a   Van Dijk, Antony ^a   Ottens, Petra J ^a   Ploeg, Rutger J ^a   Leuvenink, Henri G D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal model; Brain death; Ischaemia; Liver; Organ donation; Organ procurement; Rats; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER PARENCHYMA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; BRAIN DEATH; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LIVER; MALE; ORGAN PRESERVATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TISSUE DONORS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 34547591513     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367707781282848     Document Type: Article

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