Immune monitoring for rejection of kidney transplants

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 344, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 1006-1007

  Soulillou, J P ^a  

^a HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; IMMUNE STATUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOPSY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRANZYMES; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 0035967236     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200103293441309     Document Type: Editorial

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5. Granzyme B and perforin can be used as predictive markers of acute rejection in heart transplantation
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