Transplantation tolerance: A journey from ignorance to memory

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1979-1982

  Lakkis, Fadi G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Memory T lymphocytes; Primary immune response; Transplantation tolerance

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2; PERFORIN;

ALLOIMMUNITY; DOWN REGULATION; EDITORIAL; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MEMORY CELL; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; T-LYMPHOCYTES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE;

EID: 0141841766     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfg312     Document Type: Editorial

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