Serine proteinase inhibitor-9, an endogenous blocker of granzyme B/perforin lytic pathway, is hyperexpressed during acute rejection of renal allografts

Transplantation

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1565-1570

  Muthukumar, Thangamani ^a   Ding, Ruchuang ^a   Dadhania, Darshana ^a   Medeiros, Mara ^a   Li, Baogui ^a   Sharma, Vijay K ^a   Hartono, Choli ^a,b   Serur, David ^a,b   Seshan, Surya V ^a   Volk, Hans Dieter ^c   Reinke, Petra ^c   Kapur, Sandip ^a   Suthanthiran, Manikkam ^a,d  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANZYME B; MESSENGER RNA; PERFORIN; RNA; RNA 18S; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR 9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRANZYMES; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SERPINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0038586415     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000058230.91518.2F     Document Type: Article

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