Thrombocytopenia after pig-to-baboon liver xenotransplantation: Where do platelets go?

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 320-327

  Ezzelarab, Mohamed ^a   Ekser, Burcin ^a,b   Gridelli, Bruno ^a,c   Iwase, Hayato ^a   Ayares, David ^d   Cooper, David K C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c MEDITERRANEAN INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPLANTATION AND ADVANCED SPECIALIZED THERAPIES ISMETT   (Italy)

^d REVIVICOR INC   (United States)

Author keywords

1,3 galactosyltransferase gene knockout; liver; pig; platelet WBC aggregates; platelets; xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFAZOLIN; DOPAMINE; FAMOTIDINE; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GANCICLOVIR; IMIPENEM; KETOROLAC; MEMBRANE COFACTOR PROTEIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PROSTACYCLIN; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BABOON; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIBRIN DEPOSITION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE INACTIVATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LEUKOCYTE AGGREGATION; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER PERFUSION; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BLOOD PLATELETS; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PAPIO; PLATELET AGGREGATION; SWINE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 83755220964     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2011.00679.x     Document Type: Article

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