Critical evaluation of the amino acid triplet-epitope matching concept in cadaver kidney transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 902-907

  Laux, Gunter ^a   Mytilineos, Joannis ^a   Opelz, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CADAVER KIDNEY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; EPITOPE MAPPING; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CADAVER; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA-A ANTIGENS; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 1842472934     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000114595.59168.3B     Document Type: Article

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