Current progress in xenogeneic tolerance

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 168-173

  Yamada, Kazuhiko ^a   Scalea, Joseph ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

mixed chimerism; pig to nonhuman primates; thymus transplantation; tolerance; xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

CD39 ANTIGEN; CD44V ANTIGEN; CD47 ANTIGEN;

B LYMPHOCYTE; BABOON; CHIMERA; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; REVIEW; SWINE; T LYMPHOCYTE; XENOGRAFT; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CHIMERISM; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 84858798186     PISSN: 10872418     EISSN: 15317013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOT.0b013e32835090f6     Document Type: Review

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