Donor-specific hyporeactivity after liver transplantation. Prominent decreases in donor-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte precursor frequencies independent of changes in helper T lymphocyte precursor frequencies or suppressor cell activity

Transplantation

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 516-522

  De Haan, Aalzen ^a   Van Den Berg, Arie P ^a   Hepkema, Bouke G ^a   Van Dijk, Elinda ^a   Haagsma, Elizabeth B ^a   The, T Hauw ^a   Slooff, Maarten J H ^a   Lems, Simon P M ^a   De Leij, Lou F M H ^a   Prop, Jochum ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; GRAFT REJECTION; HELPER CELL; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; SUPPRESSOR CELL;

HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY;

EID: 0032572798     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199808270-00017     Document Type: Article

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