Noninvasive diagnosis of renal-allograft rejection by measurement of messenger RNA for perforin and granzyme B in urine

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 344, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 947-954

  Li, Baogui ^a   Hartono, Choli ^a,b   Ding, Ruchuang ^a   Sharma, Vijay K ^a   Ramaswamy, Ravi ^a   Qian, Biao ^a   Serur, David ^a,b   Mouradian, Janet ^a   Schwartz, Joseph E ^c   Suthanthiran, Manikkam ^a,b,d  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Division of Nephrology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHILIN B; CYTOTOXIC FACTOR; GRANZYME B; MESSENGER RNA; PERFORIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; URINALYSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CYCLOPHILINS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRANZYMES; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 0035967217     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200103293441301     Document Type: Article

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