Introduction of modified cervical cardiac transplant model in mice

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 158-162

  Gong, Weihua ^a,b   Thornley, Thomas ^b   Whitcher, Gregory H ^b   Ge, Fangmin ^a   Yuan, Shunzong ^b   Liu, Derek J ^b   Balasubramanian, Savithri ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cardiac transplant; Continuity; Function; Modified techniques

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CAROTID ARTERY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EXTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; HEART GRAFT; HETEROTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; HLA MATCHING; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; ISOGRAFT; MALE; MINOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MODIFIED CERVICAL CARDIAC TRANSPLANT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL TIME; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; JUGULAR VEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, ANIMAL; NECK MUSCLES; SPLEEN; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 84859328205     PISSN: 13040855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6002/ect.2011.0123     Document Type: Article

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