Anti-CD20 treatment prolongs syngeneic islet graft survival and delays the onset of recurrent autoimmune diabetes

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1150, Issue , 2008, Pages 217-219

  Hu, Changyun ^a   Deng, Songyan ^a   Wong, F Susan ^b   Wen, Li ^a,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Mail Box 208020 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Anti CD20 therapy; Islet transplantation; NOD mice

Indexed keywords

CD20 ANTIBODY; INSULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN TREATMENT; ISOGRAFT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

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EID: 57749209115     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1447.032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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