Survival of allogeneic hepatocytes transplanted into the thymus

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 270-279

  Mula, Nieves ^a   Cubero, Francisco J ^a   Codesal, Javier ^b   De Andrés, Socorro ^a   Escudero, Cristina ^a   García Barrutia, Socorro ^c   Millán, Isabel ^a   Arahuetes, Rosa M ^c   Maganto, Paloma ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Allogeneic hepatocyte survival; Cell therapy; Ectopic hepatocyte transplant; Rat; Thymus

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISCHER 344 RAT; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GUNN RAT; HEPATOCYTE TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THYMUS; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE;

ANIMALS; BILE; BILIRUBIN; CELL SURVIVAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATOCYTES; RATS; RATS, GUNN; RATS, INBRED F344; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 51349117166     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000118096     Document Type: Article

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