Xenograft tolerance and immune function of human T cells developing in pig thymus xenografts

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 192, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3442-3450

  Kalscheuer, Hannes ^c   Onoe, Takashi ^d   Dahmani, Alexander ^b   Li, Hao Wei ^a,b   Hölzl, Markus ^b   Yamada, Kazuhiko ^a   Sykes, Megan ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CD34 SELECTION; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IN VITRO STUDY; LEUKOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SWINE; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMUS; THYMUS TRANSPLANTATION; XENOGRAFT;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MICE, INBRED NOD; MICE, SCID; SWINE; T-LYMPHOCYTES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TETANUS TOXOID; THYMOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 84897553734     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1302886     Document Type: Article

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