Immunosuppressive protocols for pig-to-human islet transplantation: Lessons from pre-clinical non-human primate models

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 107-111

  Gangappa, Shivaprakash ^a   Larsen, Christian P ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; BASILIXIMAB; BELATACEPT; CD40 LIGAND MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; EVEROLIMUS; FINGOLIMOD; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; JANUS KINASE 3 INHIBITOR; LEFLUNOMIDE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PROTEIN KINASE C INHIBITOR; RAPAMYCIN; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIABETES MELLITUS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MODELS, ANIMAL; PRIMATES; SWINE;

EID: 42649139572     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2008.00464.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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