Administration of nonanticoagulant heparin inhibits the loss of glycosaminoglycans from xenogeneic cardiac grafts and prolongs graft survival

MeSH terms

• Animals
• Cells, Cultured
• Endothelium, Vascular / drug effects
• Endothelium, Vascular / metabolism*
• Glycosaminoglycans / metabolism*
• Graft Rejection / prevention & control
• Graft Survival / physiology*
• Guinea Pigs
• Heart Transplantation / physiology*
• Heparin / pharmacology*
• Heparitin Sulfate / metabolism
• Humans
• Kinetics
• Rats
• Rats, Inbred Lew
• Swine
• Transplantation, Heterologous / physiology*
• Transplantation, Isogeneic / physiology