Failure to down-regulate intragraft cytokine mRNA expression shortly after clinical heart transplantation is associated with high incidence of acute rejection

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 503-510

  De Groot Kruseman, Hester A ^a   Baan, Carla C ^a   Loonen, Elisabeth H M ^a   Mol, Wendy M ^a   Niesters, Hubert G M ^a   Maat, Alex P W M ^a   Balk, Aggie H M M ^a   Weimar, Willem ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTOKINE; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECIPIENT; REPERFUSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOPSY; CHEMOKINE CCL2; CYCLOSPORINE; CYTOKINES; ENDOCARDIUM; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; RNA, MESSENGER; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0035046977     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(00)00325-9     Document Type: Article

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