Alterations of the immune response with increasing, recipient age are associated with reduced long-term organ graft function of rat kidney allografts

Transplantation

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1560-1568

  Pascher, Andreas ^a   Reutzel Selke, Anja ^a   Jurisch, Anke ^a   Bachmann, Ulrike ^a   Heidenhain, Christoph ^a   Nickel, Peter ^a   Reinke, Petra ^a   Brandt, Christine ^a   Pratschke, Johann ^a   Frei, Ulrich ^a   Neuhaus, Peter ^a   Volk, Hans Dieter ^a   Tullius, Stefan G ^a,b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AGE; ALLOGRAFT; ALLOIMMUNITY; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SORTER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; NEPHRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD3; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKINS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 10744232130     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000090161.79609.D3     Document Type: Article

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