Reduction of acute rejection by bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells during rat small bowel transplantation.

Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMMSCs) have shown immunosuppressive activity in transplantation. This study was designed to determine whether BMMSCs could improve outcomes of small bowel transplantation in rats.Heterotopic small bowel transplantation was performed from Brown Norway to Lewis rat...

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Main Authors: Yang Yang, Hong-Li Song, Wen Zhang, Ben-Juan Wu, Nan-Nan Fu, Wei-Ping Zheng, Chong Dong, Zhong-Yang Shen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4266507?pdf=render