Expression of the c-kit proto-oncogene in rat hepatic allografts during acute rejection

Hepatology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 133-139

  Yamaguchi, Yasuo ^a   Okabe, Kazutoshi ^a   Matsumura, Fujio ^a   Akizuki, Eiji ^a   Matsuda, Teishi ^a   Ohshiro, Hajime ^a   Liang, Jian ^a   Ishihara, Kojiroh ^a   Mori, Katsutaka ^a   Ogawa, Michio ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 12; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; ONCOGENE C KIT; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOKINES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KINETICS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RNA, MESSENGER; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0032943053     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510290105     Document Type: Article

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