The fine cytokine line between graft acceptance and rejection

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 497-498

  Holzknecht, Zoie E ^a   Platt, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0034022795     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/74963     Document Type: Short Survey

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