Transplantation

Data on transplantation reported by researchers at University of Lund

Published in Hospital Business Week, December 21st, 2008

"The extent of site and tissue-associated immune privilege is of great interest in transplantation experiments involving the CNS. In the present paper we have explored neuroretinal immune privilege by transplantation to a non-immune privileged site," scientists in Lund, Sweden report.

"Fetal and adult full-thickness rabbit neuroretinal grafts were placed in the subconjunctival space of immunocompetent rabbit hosts. Morphological examination was performed after 2-31 days (fetal grafts, n=46), and after 8 days (adult grafts, n=4). Hematoxylin and eosin-stained sections and immunohistochemistry directed against microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2) revealed surviving...

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Source: Hospital Business Week (2008-12-21)

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