Identification of MICA as a new polymorphic alloantigen recognized by antibodies in sera of organ transplant recipients

Human Immunology

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 917-924

  Zwirner, Norberto W ^a   Marcos, Cintia Y ^a   Mirbaha, Fariba ^a   Zou, Yizhou ^a   Stastny, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alioantigen; HLA; MICA; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1 RELATED CHAIN A; RABBIT ANTISERUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FIBROBLAST; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KERATINOCYTE; MONOCYTE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SEROLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; HELA CELLS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMAN; ISOANTIBODIES; ISOANTIGENS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMORPHISM (GENETICS); RABBITS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0033787672     PISSN: 01988859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0198-8859(00)00162-2     Document Type: Article

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