Engrafting fetal liver cells into multiple tissues of healthy adult mice without the use of immunosuppressants

Cellular and Molecular Biology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 422-434

  Darinskas, Adas ^a   Gasparaviciute, Renata ^a   Malisauskas, Mantas ^b   Wilhelm, Kristina ^b   Kozhevnikov, Jurij A ^c   Liutkevicius, Evaldas ^d   Pilinkiene, Audrone ^d   Morozova Roche, Ludmilla A ^b  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d Imunolita JSC   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Engraftment; Fetal cells; Immune suppression; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMETRY; ENGRAFTMENT; FETUS LIVER; FLUORESCENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RECIPIENT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETUS; HEALTH; HEPATOCYTES; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAINING AND LABELING; TESTIS;

EID: 38049173309     PISSN: 14258153     EISSN: 16891392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11658-007-0013-2     Document Type: Article

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