Acute cellular rejection predominated by monocytes is a severe form of rejection in human renal recipients with or without Campath-1H (alemtuzumab) induction therapy

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 604-607

  Zhang, Ping L ^a   Malek, Sayeed K ^a   Prichard, Jeffery W ^a   Lin, Fan ^a   Yahya, Taher M ^a   Schwartzman, Michael S ^a   Latsha, Ruth P ^a   Norfolk, Evan R ^a   Blasick, Thomas M ^b   Lun, Mingyue ^b   Brown, Robert E ^a   Hartle, James E ^a   Potdar, Santosh ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WEIS CENTER FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute rejection; Campath 1H; CD52; Monocytes; Renal transplants

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB;

ACUTE CELLULAR REJECTION; ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATORY CELL; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MONOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, NEOPLASM; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTES;

EID: 20044391391     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2004.00712.x     Document Type: Article

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