Down-regulation of TGF-β and VCAM-1 is associated with successful treatment of chronic rejection in rats

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1926-1928

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

^a ASTELLAS PHARMA GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 CYANO 3 HYDROXY N [4 (TRIFLUOROMETHYL)PHENYL] 6 HEPTYNAMIDE; TACROLIMUS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRIPTOLIDE; TRIPTOLIDE SUCCINATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; ISOGRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE-1;

EID: 20344390044     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2005.02.096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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