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SUBMITTER: Guo J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4272671 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Guo Jinbang J Huang Howard J HJ Wang Xingan X Wang Wei W Ellison Henry H Thomen Robert P RP Gelman Andrew E AE Woods Jason C JC
Magnetic resonance in medicine 20140620 5
<h4>Purpose</h4>To demonstrate that longitudinal, noninvasive monitoring via MRI can characterize acute cellular rejection in mouse orthotopic lung allografts.<h4>Methods</h4>Nineteen Balb/c donor to C57BL/6 recipient orthotopic left lung transplants were performed, further divided into control-Ig versus anti-CD4/anti-CD8 treated groups. A two-dimensional multislice gradient-echo pulse sequence synchronized with ventilation was used on a small-animal MR scanner to acquire proton images of lung a ...[more]