Prolonged survival of fully mismatched cardiac allografts and generation of regulatory cells by sairei-to, a japanese herbal medicine

Transplantation

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1787-1791

  Zhang, Qi ^a   Iwami, Daiki ^a   Aramaki, Osamu ^b   Yakubo, Shuji ^b   Nishimura, Ko ^c   Ishige, Atsushi ^c   Watanabe, Kenji ^c   Matsuno, Kenjiro ^d   Shirasugi, Nozomu ^a   Niimi, Masanori ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gorei san; Kampo; Regulatory cells; Sairei to; Sho saiko to

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; SAIREI TO;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HERBAL MEDICINE; HETEROTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SPLEEN CELL;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; LEUKOCYTES; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE TEST, MIXED; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 67649576879     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181a75917     Document Type: Article

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