Open AccessCONTRASTING OUTCOMES OF DONOR-SPECIFIC BLOOD TRANSFUSION
Author(s) -
Yang Chun-ping,
Emma Shittu,
Barbara McManus,
Peter Wood,
Eric B. Bell
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/00007890-199809150-00016
Subject(s) - major histocompatibility complex , immunology , titer , medicine , antibody , blood transfusion , mhc class i , heart transplantation , antigen , transplantation
Giving recipients a prior donor-specific blood transfusion (DST) is effective in prolonging organ allograft survival in some inbred strains but not in others. The present investigation analyzed two such contrasting strains of rats in an attempt to define the basis for this variation.