Gerald Berry
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Obliterative airway disease after heterotopic tracheal xenotransplantation: pathogenesis and prevention using new immunosuppressive agents.
Transplantation. 1997; (3): 373-83
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether obliterative bronchiolitis might occur after xenogenic pulmonary transplantation. A model for obliterative airway disease (OAD) after tracheal allograft transplantation in the rat undergoes tracheal obliteration with histologic features characteristic of obliterative bronchiolitis in human lung transplant recipients. Using this model, the pathogenesis of OAD and its prevention with immunosuppressive drugs was studied in rat recipients of hamster tracheal grafts.
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