TY - JOUR AU - Zhu, Jinguo AU - Chen, Shuzhen AU - Wang, Jinju AU - Zhang, Cheng AU - Zhang, Wei AU - Liu, Peng AU - Ma, Ruilian AU - Chen, Yanfang AU - Yao, Zhen PY - 2013 DA - 2013/05/16 TI - Splenectomy increases the survival time of heart allograft via developing immune tolerance JO - Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery SP - 129 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - The spleen is an active lymphoid organ. The effect of splenectomy on the immune response remains unclear. This study investigated whether splenectomy can induce immune tolerance and has a beneficial role in cardiac allograft. SN - 1749-8090 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-8-129 DO - 10.1186/1749-8090-8-129 ID - Zhu2013 ER -