Microchimerism and rejection in clinical transplantation

Lancet

Volumn 349, Issue 9062, 1997, Pages 1358-1360

  Elwood, Eric T ^a   Larsen, Christian P ^a   Maurer, David H ^a   Routenberg, Kristine L ^a   Neylan, John F ^a   Whelchel, John D ^a   O'Brien, David P ^a   Pearson, Thomas C ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030962608     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)09105-2     Document Type: Article

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