Combined donor leucocyte administration and immunosuppressive drug treatment for survival of rat heart allografts

Transplant Immunology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 177-184

  Den Dulk, Marcel ^a,b   Wang, Chuanmin ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Clark, David A ^c   Hibberd, Adrian D ^c   Terpstra, Onno T ^b   McCaughan, Geoffrey W ^a   Bishop, G Alex ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

CAST; castanospermine; CsA; cyclosporine A; Cytokine expression; DL; donor leucocytes; Donor leucocytes; GAPDH; glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate dehydrogenase; IFN; IL 2R; Immune tolerance; Immunosuppression; interferon; interleukin 2 receptor; MHC

Indexed keywords

CASTANOSPERMINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 4 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; METHOTREXATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPLEEN;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOSPORINE; CYTOKINES; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INDOLIZINES; LEUKOCYTE TRANSFUSION; MALE; METHOTREXATE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 4644371513     PISSN: 09663274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trim.2004.05.003     Document Type: Article

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