Facilitation of tacrolimus-induced heart-allograft acceptability by pretransplant host treatment with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor: Interleukin-12-restricted suppression of intragraft monokine mRNA expression

Transplantation

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 553-556

  Kitayama, Teruhiko ^a   Hayamizu, Keisuke ^a   Egi, Hiroyuki ^a   Ohmori, Ichiro ^a   Yoshimitsu, Masanori ^a   Asahara, Toshimasa ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; MONOKINE; PROTEIN P35; PROTEIN P40; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; TACROLIMUS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TH1 CELL; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTERLEUKIN-12; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TACROLIMUS; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0037468495     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000046386.14137.AA     Document Type: Article

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