Role of cytokine gene polymorphism in hepatitis C recurrence and allograft rejection among liver transplant recipients

Transplantation

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1475-1480

  Tambur, Anat R ^d   Ortegel, John W ^a   Ben Ari, Ziv ^b   Shabtai, Eti ^c   Klein, Tirza ^b   Michowiz, Rachel ^b   Tur Kaspa, Rani ^b   Mor, Eytan ^b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECURRENT INFECTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0035958115     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200105270-00020     Document Type: Article

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