Human progenitor cell quantification after xenotransplantation in rat and mouse models by a sensitive qPCR assay

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1639-1652

  Prigent, Julie ^a   Herrero, Astrid ^a   Ambroise, Jérôme ^a   Smets, Françoise ^a   Deblandre, Gisèle A ^a   Sokal, Etienne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alu repeat sequences; Engraftment analysis; Hepatic progenitor cells; Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR); Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; IL2RG PROTEIN, MOUSE; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR GAMMA; RAG2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; MOUSE MODEL; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RAT MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STEM CELL; TRANSPLANTATION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION; ALU SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; DEFICIENCY; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIVER; METABOLISM; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WISTAR RAT; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ALU ELEMENTS; ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN RECEPTOR COMMON GAMMA SUBUNIT; LIVER; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 84938889023     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: 15553892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368914X681955     Document Type: Article

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