Transcriptional profiling to assess the clinical status of kidney transplants

Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 116-117

  Strom, Terry B ^a,c   Suthanthiran, Manikkam ^b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HARVARD INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ASSAY; CELL KILLING; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHORT SURVEY; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33644816356     PISSN: 17458323     EISSN: 17458331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneph0115     Document Type: Short Survey

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