S L Houser

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Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Immunological unresponsiveness in chimeric miniature swine following MHC-mismatched spleen transplantation
    Frank J M F Dor
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Transplantation 80:1791-804. 2005
  2. ncbi Thrombotic microangiopathy and graft arteriopathy in pig hearts following transplantation into baboons
    Stuart L Houser
    Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Xenotransplantation 11:416-25. 2004
  3. ncbi Serum lipids and arterial plaque load are altered independently with high-dose progesterone in hypercholesterolemic male rabbits
    S L Houser
    Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Cardiovasc Pathol 9:317-22. 2000
  4. ncbi Cardiac allograft vasculopathy: real or a normal morphologic variant?
    Stuart Houser
    Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    J Heart Lung Transplant 26:167-73. 2007
  5. ncbi Valvular heart disease in patients with hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis syndrome associated with Jaccoud's arthropathy
    S L Houser
    Department of Pathology, Cardiovascular Pathology Section, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Warren 2, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Cardiovasc Pathol 11:210-6. 2002
  6. ncbi An MHC class II disparity raises the threshold for tolerance induction in pulmonary allografts in miniature swine
    T Shoji
    Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Transplant Proc 38:3268-70. 2006
  7. ncbi The role of indirect recognition of MHC class I and II allopeptides in a fully mismatched miniature swine model of lung transplantation
    H Sahara
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Transplant Proc 38:3256-8. 2006
  8. ncbi Rejection of cardiac xenografts transplanted from alpha1,3-galactosyltransferase gene-knockout (GalT-KO) pigs to baboons
    Y Hisashi
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Am J Transplant 8:2516-26. 2008
  9. ncbi The indirect alloresponse impairs the induction but not maintenance of tolerance to MHC class I-disparate allografts
    M J Weiss
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Am J Transplant 9:105-13. 2009
  10. ncbi Thymectomy does not abrogate long-term acceptance of MHC class I-disparate lung allografts in miniature Swine
    H Sahara
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Transplant Proc 38:3253-5. 2006

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  1. ncbi Immunological unresponsiveness in chimeric miniature swine following MHC-mismatched spleen transplantation
    Frank J M F Dor
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Transplantation 80:1791-804. 2005
    ..CONCLUSIONS: Successful SpTx can result in hematopoietic cell engraftment and in vitro donor-specific unresponsiveness, enabling prolonged survival of subsequent donor-matched kidney grafts without immunosuppression...
  2. ncbi Thrombotic microangiopathy and graft arteriopathy in pig hearts following transplantation into baboons
    Stuart L Houser
    Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Xenotransplantation 11:416-25. 2004
    ..Acute humoral xenograft rejection (AHXR) is an immunologic barrier in pig-to-baboon organ transplantation (Tx). We report microvascular thrombosis and myocardial necrosis in a series of cardiac xenografts...
  3. ncbi Serum lipids and arterial plaque load are altered independently with high-dose progesterone in hypercholesterolemic male rabbits
    S L Houser
    Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Cardiovasc Pathol 9:317-22. 2000
    ..052) and H (p = 0.069) groups. These data suggest that the mechanism(s) involved with the antiatherogenic effect of HDP in this animal model is, or are, independent of an alteration in serum lipids...
  4. ncbi Cardiac allograft vasculopathy: real or a normal morphologic variant?
    Stuart Houser
    Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    J Heart Lung Transplant 26:167-73. 2007
    ..Naive coronary vessels may appear to have intimal thickening histologically characteristic of cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV). This study appraises the experimental and clinical impact of this observation...
  5. ncbi Valvular heart disease in patients with hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis syndrome associated with Jaccoud's arthropathy
    S L Houser
    Department of Pathology, Cardiovascular Pathology Section, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Warren 2, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Cardiovasc Pathol 11:210-6. 2002
    ..Since 1993, however, five patients with HUVS accompanied by Jaccoud's arthropathy (JA) were found to have serious valvular heart disease...
  6. ncbi An MHC class II disparity raises the threshold for tolerance induction in pulmonary allografts in miniature swine
    T Shoji
    Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Transplant Proc 38:3268-70. 2006
    ..These data suggest that the class II disparity inherent in a fully mismatched transplant increases the requirement for tolerance induction...
  7. ncbi The role of indirect recognition of MHC class I and II allopeptides in a fully mismatched miniature swine model of lung transplantation
    H Sahara
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Transplant Proc 38:3256-8. 2006
    ..This appears particularly true for class I-derived allopeptides, suggesting that class II molecules may be less antigenic when presented indirectly...
  8. ncbi Rejection of cardiac xenografts transplanted from alpha1,3-galactosyltransferase gene-knockout (GalT-KO) pigs to baboons
    Y Hisashi
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Am J Transplant 8:2516-26. 2008
    ..In conclusion, despite the absence of the Gal epitope, acute and chronic antibody and cell-mediated rejection developed in grafts, maintained by chronic immunosupression, presumably due to de novo responses to non-Gal antigens...
  9. ncbi The indirect alloresponse impairs the induction but not maintenance of tolerance to MHC class I-disparate allografts
    M J Weiss
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Am J Transplant 9:105-13. 2009
    ..This suggests that the presence of T cells activated via indirect allorecognition represent a barrier to the induction but not the maintenance of tolerance...
  10. ncbi Thymectomy does not abrogate long-term acceptance of MHC class I-disparate lung allografts in miniature Swine
    H Sahara
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Transplant Proc 38:3253-5. 2006
    ..CONCLUSIONS: These data suggest that thymus-independent peripheral regulatory mechanisms may be sufficient to induce and maintain long-term acceptance of the lung allografts...
  11. ncbi Effects of tolerance induction on the actions of interferon-gamma on porcine cardiac allografts
    R Hoerbelt
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Transplant Proc 38:3196-8. 2006
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  12. ncbi Comparison of lung and kidney allografts in induction of tolerance by a mixed-chimerism approach in cynomolgus monkeys
    A Aoyama
    Department of Surgery and Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Transplant Proc 41:429-30. 2009
    ..In the present study, we applied this same technique to lung allotransplantation in cynomolgus monkeys...
  13. ncbi Indirect recognition of allopeptides promotes the development of cardiac allograft vasculopathy
    R S Lee
    The Transplantation Biology Research Center and Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:3276-81. 2001
    ..001), but they also developed obstructive fibroproliferative coronary artery lesions much earlier than unimmunized controls (<9 vs. >30 days). These results definitively link indirect allorecognition and cardiac allograft vasculopathy...
  14. ncbi Potential of aspirin to inhibit thrombotic microangiopathy in alpha1,3-galactosyltransferase gene-knockout pig hearts after transplantation in baboons
    F J M F Dor
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Transplant Proc 37:489-90. 2005
    ..Function of a pig organ in a baboon for a period approaching 6 months has not been reported previously and lends encouragement that the barriers to xenotransplantation will be overcome, but TM requires investigation...
  15. ncbi Long-term acceptance of porcine pulmonary allografts without chronic rejection
    T Shoji
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Transplant Proc 37:72-4. 2005
    ..CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates the ability of a brief course of high-dose tacrolimus to induce long-term graft acceptance with donor-specific hyporesponsiveness in a class I-disparate preclinical lung transplant model...
  16. ncbi Evaluation of intracoronary stenting by intravascular optical coherence tomography
    B E Bouma
    Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Heart 89:317-20. 2003
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  17. ncbi Porcine coronary imaging in vivo by optical coherence tomography
    G J Tearney
    Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston 02114, USA
    Acta Cardiol 55:233-7. 2000
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  18. ncbi Spleen transplantation in miniature swine: surgical technique and results in major histocompatibility complex-matched donor and recipient pairs
    B Gollackner
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Transplantation 75:1799-806. 2003
    ..CONCLUSION: Spleen Tx in major histocompatibility complex-matched pairs treated with CsA+/-thymic irradiation results in prolonged chimerism and is associated with the development of in vivo unresponsiveness to the transplanted spleen...
  19. ncbi Histopathology of coronary in-stent restenosis following gamma brachytherapy
    H C Lowe
    Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02144-2696, USA
    Heart 89:11-3. 2003
    ..Surprisingly, there was a relatively small cellular (myofibroblastic) component, with an absence of endothelial cells and little evidence of active proliferation. ISR after gamma brachytherapy may be a pathologically distinct entity...
  20. ncbi Significant atheromatous debris following uncomplicated vein graft direct stenting: evidence supporting routine use of distal protection devices
    Harry C Lowe
    Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Bullfinch 105, Boston, MA 02144-2696, USA
    J Invasive Cardiol 14:636-9. 2002
    ..This case illustrates the severity of distal embolization that can go clinically unnoticed after direct stenting and also supports the routine use of distal protection devices for vein graft intervention...
  21. ncbi Quantification of macrophage content in atherosclerotic plaques by optical coherence tomography
    Guillermo J Tearney
    Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02114, USA
    Circulation 107:113-9. 2003
    ..The aim of this study was to investigate the use of OCT for identifying macrophages in fibrous caps...
  22. ncbi Diagnostic accuracy of optical coherence tomography and integrated backscatter intravascular ultrasound images for tissue characterization of human coronary plaques
    Masanori Kawasaki
    Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    J Am Coll Cardiol 48:81-8. 2006
    ....
  23. ncbi Characterization of human atherosclerosis by optical coherence tomography
    Hiroshi Yabushita
    Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston 02114, USA
    Circulation 106:1640-5. 2002
    ..These results represent an important step in validating this new intravascular imaging modality and will provide a basis for the interpretation of intracoronary OCT images obtained from patients...
  24. ncbi Modeling chronic lung allograft rejection in miniature swine
    James S Allan
    Division of Thoracic Surgery, and the Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Transplantation 73:447-53. 2002
    ..We have developed a new preclinical model of chronic lung rejection using MHC-inbred miniature swine...
  25. ncbi Measurement of collagen and smooth muscle cell content in atherosclerotic plaques using polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography
    Seemantini K Nadkarni
    Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    J Am Coll Cardiol 49:1474-81. 2007
    ..The purpose of this study was to investigate the measurement of collagen and smooth muscle cell (SMC) content in atherosclerotic plaques using polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PSOCT)...
  26. ncbi Establishment of transplantable porcine tumor cell lines derived from MHC-inbred miniature swine
    Patricia S Cho
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129, USA
    Blood 110:3996-4004. 2007
    ..These results suggest the possibility of developing a transplantable tumor model in this large-animal system...
  27. ncbi 3.0 T plaque imaging
    Denise P Hinton-Yates
    Department of Radiology, MGH MIT HMS Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
    Top Magn Reson Imaging 18:389-400. 2007
    ..The overall endeavor is to improve prospective assessment of atherosclerosis stage and stability for reduction of atherothrombotic event risk...
  28. ncbi Operational tolerance to class I disparate lungs can be induced despite pretransplant immunization with class I allopeptides
    Tsuyoshi Shoji
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Transplantation 84:1467-73. 2007
    ..Using a class I-disparate swine lung transplant model, we examined whether an intensive course of tacrolimus could induce operational tolerance and whether preoperative allopeptide immunization would prevent the development of tolerance...
  29. ncbi Transmyocardial coil implants: a novel approach to transmyocardial revascularization
    David Meerkin
    Department of Medicine, Montreal Heart Institute, Quebec, Canada
    Ann Thorac Surg 74:488-92. 2002
    ..The presence of angiogenesis at the implant site and the maintenance of this reaction for 3 months implies that TMI may offer an alternative to TMLR while providing a platform for delivery of angiogenic factors...
  30. ncbi The effects of tolerance on allograft damage caused by the innate immune system
    Ruediger Hoerbelt
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Transplantation 85:314-22. 2008
    ..To address these questions, we studied the effects of rIFN-gamma infusion on porcine cardiac allograft survival...
  31. ncbi Thrombotic microangiopathy associated with humoral rejection of cardiac xenografts from alpha1,3-galactosyltransferase gene-knockout pigs in baboons
    Akira Shimizu
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129, USA
    Am J Pathol 172:1471-81. 2008
    ....
  32. ncbi Visualization of coronary atherosclerotic plaques in patients using optical coherence tomography: comparison with intravascular ultrasound
    Ik Kyung Jang
    Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    J Am Coll Cardiol 39:604-9. 2002
    ..The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and the ability of intravascular optical coherence tomography (OCT) to visualize the components of coronary plaques in living patients...
  33. ncbi Combination treatment with donor-specific transfusions and cyclosporine a induces long-term survival of cardiac allografts in miniature Swine
    Ruediger Hoerbelt
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Transplantation 80:1275-82. 2005
    ..CONCLUSIONS: These results are the first to demonstrate the ability of DST to induce operational tolerance to cardiac allografts in large animals, and they suggest that peripheral mechanisms of tolerance mediate this effect...
  34. ncbi Effects of mycophenolate mofetil on cardiac allograft survival and cardiac allograft vasculopathy in miniature swine
    Margaret L Schwarze
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Ann Thorac Surg 80:1787-93. 2005
    ..The salutary effect of mycophenolate mofetil may be related to its ability to decrease interferon-gamma expression in the myocardium and prevent the generation of alloantibodies...
  35. ncbi Focal and multi-focal plaque macrophage distributions in patients with acute and stable presentations of coronary artery disease
    Briain D Macneill
    Cardiology Division, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    J Am Coll Cardiol 44:972-9. 2004
    ..By providing a means of detecting increases in plaque macrophage content before an acute event, this technique may aid in determining prognosis and guiding preventive therapy...
  36. ncbi Histocompatible miniature swine: an inbred large-animal model
    Joshua D Mezrich
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129, USA
    Transplantation 75:904-7. 2003
    ..We conclude that G7 animals are sufficiently inbred to accept first set skin and heart grafts indefinitely...
  37. ncbi Histomorphometric comparison of cardiac allograft vasculopathy in miniature swine
    Stuart L Houser
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02214, USA
    J Heart Lung Transplant 23:50-60. 2004
    ..These results suggest that the origin of CAV cannot be determined by histology alone...
  38. ncbi Heart transplantation in baboons using alpha1,3-galactosyltransferase gene-knockout pigs as donors: initial experience
    Kenji Kuwaki
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, MGH-East, 13th Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02129, USA
    Nat Med 11:29-31. 2005
    ..There were no infectious complications directly related to the immunosuppressive regimen. The transplantation of hearts from GalT-KO pigs increased graft survival over previous studies...
  39. ncbi Histopathology of spleen allograft rejection in miniature swine
    Frank J M F Dor
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Int J Exp Pathol 86:57-66. 2005
    ..This study establishes histologic guidelines for diagnosing and, perhaps, in future studies, predicting acute rejection of splenic allografts transplanted across known histocompatibility barriers in a large-animal model...
  40. ncbi Indirect recognition of MHC class I allopeptides accelerates lung allograft rejection in miniature swine
    Tsuyoshi Shoji
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Am J Transplant 5:1626-34. 2005
    ..These studies suggest that indirect allorecognition is operative during lung allograft rejection, and that pre-transplant sensitization to donor-derived MHC allopeptides can accelerate graft rejection...
  41. ncbi Role of the thymus and kidney graft in the maintenance of tolerance to heart grafts in miniature swine
    Joshua D Mezrich
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School, 13th Street, Boston, MA, USA
    Transplantation 79:1663-73. 2005
    ..Group 5 animals developed CAV but no significant increase in interstitial infiltrates. CONCLUSIONS: Both the kidney and thymus were necessary for maintenance of tolerance to heart allografts...
  42. ncbi Composite "thymoheart" transplantation improves cardiac allograft survival
    Matthew T Menard
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Am J Transplant 4:79-86. 2004
    ..The transfer of vascularized, functional donor thymic tissue to the host at the time of cardiac transplantation may provide a novel approach to the induction of tolerance in human heart transplant recipients...
  43. ncbi Characterization of atherosclerotic plaques by laser speckle imaging
    Seemantini K Nadkarni
    Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 40 Blossom St, BAR 718, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Circulation 112:885-92. 2005
    ..In this article, we describe a new optical technique, laser speckle imaging (LSI), that measures an index of plaque viscoelasticity. We evaluate the potential of LSI for characterizing atherosclerotic plaque...
  44. ncbi Induction of tolerance to heart transplants by simultaneous cotransplantation of donor kidneys may depend on a radiation-sensitive renal-cell population
    Joshua D Mezrich
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Transplantation 76:625-31. 2003
    ..CONCLUSIONS: Radiosensitive elements in kidney allograft may be responsible for tolerance induction and prevention of chronic vascular lesions in recipients of simultaneous heart and kidney allografts...
  45. ncbi Heart and en-bloc thymus transplantation in miniature swine
    Douglas R Johnston
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 130:554-9. 2005
    ..CONCLUSION: We have validated a new technique of donor thymus transplantation that could have utility in human heart transplantation...
  46. ncbi Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 29-2004. A 75-year-old woman with acute onset of chest pain followed by fever
    Adolf W Karchmer
    Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Boston, USA
    N Engl J Med 351:1240-8. 2004
  47. ncbi Calcified plaque: measurement of area at thin-section flat-panel CT and 64-section multidetector CT and comparison with histopathologic findings
    Ammar Sarwar
    Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, 165 Cambridge St, 4th Floor, Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Radiology 249:301-6. 2008
    ..18/1.02]), and the predicted difference was smaller (1.16 mm(2), P = .08). The extent of the blooming artifact in visualizing calcified coronary plaque is reduced by using flat-panel-volume CT...
  48. ncbi Coronary in-stent restenosis following beta brachytherapy: a histopathological examination
    Christian F Witzke
    Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02114, USA
    Cardiovasc Pathol 13:85-90. 2004
    ..Previously unreported histopathology of directed atherectomy specimens of such restenotic lesions and a discussion of their proposed significance form the basis of this report...
  49. ncbi Constitutive expression of major histocompatibility complex class II antigens in pulmonary epithelium and endothelium varies among different species
    Stuart L Houser
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Transplantation 77:605-7. 2004
    ..These interspecies differences may explain experimental differences observed between murine and large-animal constructs...
  50. ncbi Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease after allogeneic transplantation of the spleen in miniature swine
    Frank J M F Dor
    Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, MGH East, Building 149, 13th Street, Boston, MA 02129, USA
    Transplantation 78:286-91. 2004
    ..PTLD can occur after allogeneic SpTx in swine. This model may be useful in studies of the pathogenesis of PTLD...
  51. ncbi Images in cardiovascular medicine. Culprit lesion atherothrombectomy during acute myocardial infarction: extraction of an acute coronary plaque rupture
    Rodolfo Carrillo-Jimenez
    Cardiology Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Circulation 112:e267. 2005
  52. ncbi Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 12-2004. A 38-year-old woman with acute onset of pain in the chest
    Alan J Greenfield
    Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
    N Engl J Med 350:1666-74. 2004
  53. ncbi Arterial wall imaging: evaluation with 16-section multidetector CT in blood vessel phantoms and ex vivo coronary arteries
    Maros Ferencik
    Department of Radiology, Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Radiology 240:708-16. 2006
    ..001). CONCLUSION: Determination of composition of individual plaques from attenuation values can be more challenging because of overlapping values for different tissue types...
  54. ncbi Vulnerable plaque detection by 3.0 tesla magnetic resonance imaging
    Ricardo C Cury
    Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA
    Invest Radiol 41:112-5. 2006
    ..5 T. Further studies validating contrast mechanisms of plaque at 3.0 T are required, but atherosclerotic plaque imaging has clear benefit from application at the higher magnetic field strength...
  55. ncbi Safe induction of diabetes by high-dose streptozotocin in pigs
    Hidetaka Hara
    Department of Surgery, Thomas E Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
    Pancreas 36:31-8. 2008
    ..As a result, pancreatectomy has been advocated in this species. We have investigated the effects of 2 dosages of STZ to safely induce diabetes in pigs...