Detecting 'decoy cells' by phase-contrast microscopy [6]

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1015-1016

  Gai, Massimo ^a   Piccoli, Giorgina B ^a   Motta, Daria ^a   Giraudi, Roberta ^a   Gabrielli, Danila ^a   Messina, Marina ^a   Jeantet, Alberto ^a   Segoloni, Giuseppe P ^a   Lanfranco, Giacomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; BK VIRUS; CASE REPORT; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TUBULE CELL; KIDNEY TUBULE DISORDER; LETTER; MALE; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; URINALYSIS;

EID: 1842471050     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh074     Document Type: Letter

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