Detection of IL-2 receptor gene expression in peripheral blood from renal transplant patients

Surgery Today

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1058-1064

  Shimizu, Soichi ^a   Ueda, Masakazu ^a   Ozawa, Soji ^a   Wakabayashi, Go ^a   Endo, Masao ^a   Hayakawa, Kunihiro ^a   Hata, Makoto ^a   Murai, Masaru ^a   Kitajima, Masaki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interleukin 1; Interleukin 2; Interleukin 2 receptor; RT PCR; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL MONITORING; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; TECHNIQUE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AGED; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, IMMUNOLOGIC; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0035709318     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s595-001-8057-7     Document Type: Article

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