Kinetics of circulating cytotoxic T lymphocyte precursors that have a high avidity for donor antigens: Correlation with the rejection status of the human cardiac allograft

Transplant Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 153-160

  Van Emmerik, Nancy Em ^a,b   Vaessen, Leonard Mb ^a   Knoop, Christiaan J ^a   Daane, Cornelis R ^a   Balk, Aggie Hmm ^b   Mochtar, Bas ^b   Claas, Frans Hj ^c   Weimar, Willem ^a  

^a Departments of Internal Medicine   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL KINETICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLYMPHOCYTE; RECIPIENT;

EID: 0031744232     PISSN: 09663274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-3274(98)80040-3     Document Type: Article

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