Food allergy after liver transplantation - Is it the result of T-cell imbalance?

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 647-649

  Hinds, Rupert ^a   Dhawan, Anil ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CYCLOSPORIN A; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 5 ANTIBODY; TACROLIMUS;

ATOPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; EOSINOPHILIA; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; T LYMPHOCYTE;

CHILD; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; GASTRITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TACROLIMUS;

EID: 33746903873     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2006.00563.x     Document Type: Editorial

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