Pretransplant donor-specific helper T cell reactivity as a tool for tailoring the individual need for immunosuppression

Transplantation

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 873-880

  Van Der Mast, Barbara J ^a   Van Besouw, Nicole M ^a   De Kuiper, Petronella ^a   B Vaessen, Lenard M ^a   H Smak Gregoor, Peter J ^a   M IJzermans, Jan N ^a   Van Gelder, Teun ^a   J Claas, Frans H ^b   Weimar, Willem ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETANUS TOXOID;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOIMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HELPER CELL; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

EID: 0035884659     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200109150-00023     Document Type: Article

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