Liver Transplantation in the Rat: Single-Center Experience With Technique, Long-term Survival, and Functional and Histologic Findings

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2631-2636

  Matevossian, E ^a   Doll, D ^a   Huser N ^a   Brauer, R ^a   Sinicina, I ^b   Nahrig J ^a   Friess, H ^a   Stangl, M ^a   Assfalg, V ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIVER ENZYME; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MEGADOSE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; BIOPSY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TACROLIMUS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 68949200192     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2009.06.024     Document Type: Article

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