WZS-pig is a potential donor alternative in corneal xenotransplantation

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 603-611

  Zhiqiang, Pan ^a   Cun, Sun ^a   Ying, Jie ^a   Ningli, Wang ^a   Li, Wang ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cornea; Pig; Rhesus; XenotransplantationHAR, hyperacute rejection

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOMETRY; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LAMELLAR BODY; MEMBRANE FORMATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SLIT LAMP; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CORNEA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOKINES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; RETINAL VESSELS; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 35948946174     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2007.00432.x     Document Type: Article

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