Survival of DNA HLA-DR typed and matched cadaver kidney transplants

The Lancet

Volumn 338, Issue 8765, 1991, Pages 461-463

  Opelz, G ^a   Mytilineos, J ^a   Scherer, S ^a   Dunckley, H ^b   Trejaut, J ^b   Chapman, J ^b   Middleton, D ^c   Savage, D ^c   Fischer, G F ^d   Bignon, J D ^e   Bensa, J C ^f   Albert, E ^g   Noreen, H ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service   (Australia)

^c N Ireland Tissue Typing Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^f Transfusion and Immunopathology Centre ^*  (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

CADAVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA; EVALUATION STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HLA-DR1 ANTIGEN; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0025900110     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(91)90540-6     Document Type: Article

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