Tolerance or accommodation: The lesson from leflunomide

Transplantation

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 133-134

  Sebille, Fabien ^a   Dorling, Anthony ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; HEME OXYGENASE 1; LEFLUNOMIDE; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; B LYMPHOCYTE; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; COMPLEMENT INHIBITION; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG MECHANISM; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE; VASCULARIZATION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; ISOXAZOLES; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY;

EID: 12744280868     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000147463.92625.14     Document Type: Note

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