Skin biopsies predict acute graft-versus-host disease after small bowel transplantation in pigs

Acta Veterinaria Hungarica

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 533-541

  Pintar, Tadeja ^a   Pleskovic A ^a   Alessiani, M ^b   Abbiati, Francesca ^b   Milutinović, Aleksandra ^c   Petrovic D ^c   Pogacnik M ^d   Zorc Pleskovič, Ruda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Graft versus host disease; Skin biopsies; Small bowel transplantation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; SKIN; SMALL INTESTINE; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BIOPSY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; INTESTINE, SMALL; SKIN; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; PIERIS BRASSICAE; SUIDAE;

EID: 38549091038     PISSN: 02366290     EISSN: 15882705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/AVet.55.2007.4.12     Document Type: Article

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