Microchimerism and graft tolerance: Cause or effect?

Lancet

Volumn 349, Issue 9062, 1997, Pages 1336-1337

  Adams, D H ^a   Hutchinson, I V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; TACROLIMUS;

CHIMERA; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; NEPHROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0030898257     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)22019-2     Document Type: Note

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