Kinetics of IL-2 and IL-4 mRNA and protein production by graft-infiltrating lymphocytes responsible for rejection after clinical heart transplantation

Transplant Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 97-103

  Baan, Carla C ^a   Van Besouw, Nicole M ^a   Daane, Cornelis R ^a   Balk, Aggie H M M ^a   Mochtar, Bas ^a   Niesters, Hubert G M ^a   Weimar, Willem ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KINETICS; LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030850863     PISSN: 09663274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-3274(97)80049-4     Document Type: Article

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