Rejection - More than the eye can see

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 353, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 2394-2396

  Strom, Terry B ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

EDITORIAL; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ULTRASOUND;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIGENS, CD3; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 28244479389     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe058257     Document Type: Editorial

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