Over-expression of AIF-1 in liver allografts and peripheral blood correlates with acute rejection after transplantation in rats

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1949-1957

  Nagakawa, Yuichi ^a   Nomoto, Shuji ^a   Kato, Yukihiko ^b   Montgomery, Robert A ^a   Williams, George Melville ^a   Klein, Andrew S ^a   Sun, Zhaoli ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute rejection; AIF 1; Blood; Kupffer cells; Liver transplantation; Rat

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT INFLAMMATORY FACTOR 1;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KUPFFER CELL; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, ISOGENEIC;

EID: 10044268708     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2004.00621.x     Document Type: Article

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