Prolongation of Rat Major Histocompatibility Complex-compatible Cardiac Allograft Survival During Pregnancy

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 176-182

  Funeshima Fuji, Naoko ^a,b   Fujino, Masayuki ^a,c   Xie, Lin ^a,d   Kimura, Hiromitsu ^a   Takahara, Shiro ^d   Ezaki, Taichi ^b   Zhu, Bao Ting ^e   Li, Xiao Kang ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e Shimane University School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIBODY; CONCANAVALIN A; CYTOKINE; ESTRIOL; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD28;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LEWIS RAT; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SURVIVAL TIME; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; CONCANAVALIN A; CYTOKINES; ESTRIOL; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 59349104887     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2008.11.914     Document Type: Article

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