Pig islet xenograft rejection in a mouse model with an established human immune system

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 129-135

  Tonomura, Noriko ^a   Shimizu, Akira ^a   Wang, Shumei ^a   Yamada, Kazuhiko ^a   Tchipashvili, Vaja ^b   Weir, Gordon C ^b   Yang, Yong Guang ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Humanized mouse model; Islet; Pig; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; FETUS; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; LIVER; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; C-PEPTIDE; CHIMERISM; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; SWINE; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 42649142919     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2008.00450.x     Document Type: Article

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