A model of sequential heart and composite tissue allotransplant in rats

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 80-86

  Yang, Jun ^a,b,c,d   Erdmann, Detlev ^a,b,c,d   Chang, J C ^a,b,c,d   Komatsu, Issei ^a,b,c,d   Zhang, Yixin ^a,b,c,d   Wang, Danru ^a,b,c,d   Hodavance, Michael S ^a,b,c,d   Hollenbeck, Scott T ^a,b,c,d   Levinson, Howard ^a,b,c,d   Klitzman, Bruce ^a,b,c,d   Levin, L S ^a,b,c,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital ^*

^c BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; FISCHER 344 RAT; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HETEROTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NECK; PLASTIC SURGERY; RAT; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX WALL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; NECK; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED WKY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC WALL; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954628427     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181dbbb64     Document Type: Article

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