Protective effects of PG490-88 on chronic allograft rejection by changing intragraft gene expression profiles

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1962-1964

  Fisniku, O ^a   Pan, F ^a   Wynn, C ^a   Erickson, L M ^a   Crews, G ^a   Jang, M S ^a   Sudo, Y ^a   Tamura, K ^a   Kobayashi, M ^a,b   Benediktsson, H ^c   Jiang, H ^a,b  

^a Fujisawa Res Institute of America   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANZYME B; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 1; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; PERFORIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; TACROLIMUS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRIPTOLIDE; TRIPTOLIDE SUCCINATE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECIPIENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; DITERPENES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TACROLIMUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 20344381331     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2005.02.084     Document Type: Conference Paper

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