The protective effect of the liver: Does it apply to the bowel too?

Transplantation

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 978-979

  Pirenne, Jacques ^a   Kawai, Masaru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE MUCOSA; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER PROTECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE;

ANIMALS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTESTINE, SMALL; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; RODENTIA;

EID: 33646366919     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000198388.39546.5e     Document Type: Note

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