Rodent Transplant Medicine

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gong, Weihua (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Surgical transplantation.; Animal models in research.; Medicine & Public Health.; Transplant Surgery.; Animal Models.

This book introduces transplantation in rodents as useful tools used in studying transplant immunobiology. Several solid organs (kidney, heart, liver) transplant models in rodents are described in this book. It can help surgical quality and save surgical time. The first part of the book provides a r...

Table of Contents:

• Rodent Transplantation Medicine
• T Cell Costimulatory Molecules
• Age in Rodent Organ Transplantation
• Role of Gender in Animal Transplantation
• Role of Body-Weight/Functioning Mass of Graft in Rodent Transplantation
• Illustration of Laboratory Facilities and Microsurgical Instruments
• Organ Preservation
• Rat Kidney Transplantation
• Rat Orthotopic Liver Transplantation
• Mouse Skin Transplantation
• Mouse Heterotopic Abdominal Heart Transplant Model
• Mouse Heterotopic Cervical Heart Transplant Model
• Mouse kidney Transplantation
• Mouse Liver Transplantation.