The role of tissue adaptation and graft size in immune tolerance

Transplant Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 122-125

  Hauben, Ehud ^a   Roncarolo, Maria Grazia ^a,b   Draghici, Elena ^a   Nevo, Uri ^c  

^a SAN RAFFAELE SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Ecoimmunity; Graft size; Immune tolerance; Immune deficient mice; Islet transplantation; Tissue adaptation

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, SCID; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION, ISOGENEIC;

EID: 35748978626     PISSN: 09663274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trim.2007.05.006     Document Type: Article

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