## Abstract Renal transplantation in rats is an essential experimental tool in transplantation research. The surgical procedure per se could affect the outcome of an experiment, independent of the hypothesis addressed, therefore requiring a standardized method which should be comparable across stud
An easy and safe model of kidney transplantation in rats
β Scribed by Theodore Karatzas; Sergio Santiago; Theodoros Xanthos; Wervinston De Faria; Carlos Gandia; Alkiviades Kostakis
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 272 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0738-1085
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