Improved specificity and sensitivity when using pronase-digested lymphocytes to perform flow-cytometric crossmatch prior to renal transplantation

Transplant International

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 563-569

  Lobo, Peter I ^a   Isaacs, Ross B ^a   Spencer, Clint E ^a   Pruett, Timothy L ^b   Sanfey, Hillary A ^b   Sawyer, Robert G ^b   McCullough, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti HLA antibodies; Flow cytometric crossmatch; Pronase; Renal allografts Introduction; Transplant crossmatch

Indexed keywords

FC RECEPTOR; HLA ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PRONASE;

ALLOGRAFT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAFT REJECTION; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIBODIES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTES; PRONASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036937149     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2002.tb00108.x     Document Type: Article

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