Prospective study of microchimerism in renal allograft recipients: Association between HLA-DR matching, microchimerism and acute rejection

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 192-198

  Tajik, N ^a   Singal, Dp ^b   Pourmand, G ^a   Ebrahimi Rad, M ^a   Radjabzadeh, Mf ^a   Tavasoli, P ^a   Khosravi, F ^a   Nikbin, B ^a   Nikbin, Behrouz ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kidney transplantation; Microchimerism; Nested PCR

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; DNA; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHIMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DONOR; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MICROCHIMERISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECIPIENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0034998060     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0012.2001.150308.x     Document Type: Article

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