Adoptive transfer of double negative T regulatory cells induces B-cell death in vivo and alters rejection pattern of rat-to-mouse heart transplantation

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-63

  Ma, Yuexia ^a   He, Kathy M ^a   Garcia, Bertha ^a   Min, Weiping ^a   Jevnikar, Anthony ^a   Zhang, Zhu Xu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antibody; B cells; Cytotoxicity; T cells; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; PERFORIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CELL TRANSFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HYPERACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DEATH; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MYOCARDIUM; PERFORIN; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 40549117001     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2008.00444.x     Document Type: Article

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