The intragraft gene activation of markers reflecting T-cell-activation and -cytotoxicity analyzed by quantitative RT-PCR in renal transplantation

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 30-33

  Strehlau, J ^a,b   Pavlakis, M ^b   Llpman, M ^c   Maslinski, W ^b   Shapiro, M ^b   Strom, T B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Gene expression; Kidney transplantation; PCR; Rejection

Indexed keywords

CD28 ANTIGEN; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 7; MESSENGER RNA; PERFORIN;

CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOTOXIC LYMPHOCYTE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; CHILD; CYTOKINES; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 0029948767     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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