Donor-specific antibodies arising after kidney transplantectomy: Priming or memory?

Transplantation

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 509-510

  Doxiadis, Ilias I N ^a   Claas, Frans H J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ALLOIMMUNITY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; GRAFT REJECTION; HELPER CELL; HEMODIALYSIS; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; NEPHRECTOMY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY;

ANTIBODY FORMATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; ISOANTIBODIES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; REOPERATION; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 33644622222     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000196714.25688.fd     Document Type: Note

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