A Combination of Donor Specific Transfusion and Rapamycin Prolonges Cardiac Allograft Survival in Mice

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3699-3701

  Wu, K ^a   Xiang, F ^a   Yuan, J ^a   Zeng, Z ^a   Zhou, H ^a   Chang, S ^a   Chen, Z K ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOMYCIN C; RAPAMYCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SPECIFIC TRANSFUSION; ENGRAFTMENT; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HETEROTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; SURVIVAL TIME; TRANSFUSION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTERLEUKIN-2 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE TEST, MIXED; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SIROLIMUS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 57649132048     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.06.084     Document Type: Article

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