Donor brain death aggravates chronic rejection after lung transplantation in rats.
BACKGROUND: Many recipients of lung transplants from brain-dead donors develop bronchiolitis obliterans, a manifestation of chronic rejection. It has been shown that brain death increases inflammatory mediators and accelerates acute rejection in kidney, liver, and heart transplants. In this study,...
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Formato: | Journal article |
Idioma: | English |
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2004
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