Activation of proinflammatory mediators in heart transplants from brain-dead donors: evidence from a model of chronic rat cardiac allograft rejection

Transplant Proc. 2002 Sep;34(6):2359-60. doi: 10.1016/s0041-1345(02)03283-9.

Authors

M J Wilhelm¹, J Pratschke, F Beato, M Taal, I A Laskowski, D M Paz, C Schmid, W W Hancock, H H Scheld, N L Tilney

Affiliation

¹ Surgical Research Laboratory and Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. [email protected]

PMID: 12270436
DOI: 10.1016/s0041-1345(02)03283-9

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Animals
Brain Death / physiopathology*
Electroencephalography
Graft Rejection / diagnosis*
Graft Rejection / physiopathology
Heart Transplantation / immunology
Heart Transplantation / physiology*
Hemodynamics / physiology
Inflammation / physiopathology*
Rats
Rats, Inbred F344
Rats, Inbred Lew
Tissue Donors
Transplantation, Homologous

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