Activation of proinflammatory mediators in heart transplants from brain-dead donors: evidence from a model of chronic rat cardiac allograft rejection.
Wilhelm
M J
MJ
Surgical Research Laboratory and Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. markus.wilhelm@thgms.uni-muenster.de
Pratschke
J
J
Beato
F
F
Taal
M
M
Laskowski
I A
IA
Paz
D M
DM
Schmid
C
C
Hancock
W W
WW
Scheld
H H
HH
Tilney
N L
NL
D000818:Animals; D001926:Brain Death / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006084:Graft Rejection / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000276:immunology / Q000502:physiology*; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D007249:Inflammation / Q000503:physiopathology*; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344; D011917:Rats, Inbred Lew; D014019:Tissue Donors; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous