Large antigenic skin load in total abdominal wall transplants permits chimerism induction

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 572-579

  Nasir, Serdar ^a   Bozkurt, Mehmet ^a   Klimczak, Aleksandra ^a   Siemionow, Maria ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental total abdominal wall transplantation model

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; DYE;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CELL VIABILITY; CHIMERA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL TRANSPLANTATION; FACE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INGUINAL FLAP; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOGRAFT; LEWIS RAT; LIMB; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECIPIENT; SKIN ISLAND FLAP; ANIMAL; ANTIGENIC MODULATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC MODULATION; CHIMERISM; MICROSURGERY; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 55449096553     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e31816d8275     Document Type: Article

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