Sequential cytokine expression in renal allografts in rats immunosuppressed with maintenance cyclosporine or mycophenolate mofetil

Transplantation

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1363-1366

  Nadeau, Kari C ^a   Azuma, Haruhito ^a   Tilney, Nicholas L ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; ENDOTHELIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; CYCLOSPORINE; CYTOKINES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0030461540     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199611150-00034     Document Type: Article

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