Peripheral monitoring of direct and indirect alloantigen presentation pathways in clinical heart transplant recipients

Transplantation

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 165-167

  Van Besouw, Nicole M ^a   Vaessen, Lenard M B ^a   Daane, Cornelis R ^a   Jutte, Nicolet H P M ^a   Balk, Aggie H M M ^a   Claas, Frans H J ^b   Weimar, Willem ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; ISOANTIGENS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030046738     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199601150-00033     Document Type: Article

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