CD31+ naïve Th cells are stable during six months following kidney transplantation: Implications for post-transplant thymic function

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1764-1771

  Nickel, Peter ^a   Kreutzer, Stephanie ^a   Bold, Gantuja ^a   Friebe, Astrid ^a   Schmolke, Kathrin ^a   Meisel, Christian ^a   Jurgensen, Jan Steffen ^a   Thiel, Andreas ^b   Wernecke, Klaus Dieter ^a   Reinke, Petra ^a   Volk, Hans Dieter ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b German Rheuma Research Center Berlin   (Germany)

Author keywords

Homeostatic proliferation; Kidney transplantation; T cell reconstitution; Thymus function

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; CD31 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45RA ANTIGEN; DACLIZUMAB; FINGOLIMOD; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE FREQUENCY; GRAFT REJECTION; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS FUNCTION;

AGING; ANTIGENS, CD31; ANTIGENS, CD45; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS; UREMIA;

EID: 21344470678     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2005.00924.x     Document Type: Article

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