Neuroretinal xenotransplantation to immunocompetent hosts in a discordant species combination

Neuroscience

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 526-533

  Ghosh, F ^a   Rauer, O ^a   Arner K ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

development; immunogenicity; photoreceptor; rabbit; rat; rejection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA SURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE; UPREGULATION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; NEURONS; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 40849120486     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.12.035     Document Type: Article

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