Expression of cytokine messenger RNA after heart transplantation: Relationship with rejection and serum cytokines

Transplantation

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 910-916

  Grant, Simon C D ^a   Guy, Simon P ^b   Lamb, William R ^b   Brooks, Nicholas H ^a   Brenchley, Paul E C ^b   Hutchinson, Ian V ^c  

^a WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0029824097     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199610150-00007     Document Type: Article

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