Sustained Decrease of Serum Total IgE in Cardiac Transplant Recipients

International Archives of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 163-165

  van Toorenenbergen, Albert W ^a   Balk, A H M M ^b   Vermeulen, A M ^a  

^a Departments of Clinical Chemistry   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cyclosporin A; Heart; IgE; Prednisolone; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029972512     PISSN: 10182438     EISSN: 14230097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000237282     Document Type: Article

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