Paradoxical Response to Tacrolimus Assessed by Interleukin-2 Gene Expression

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3327-3330

  El Safa, E A ^a   Fredericks, S ^b   MacPhee, I ^b   Holt, D W ^b   Johnston, A ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; INTERLEUKIN 2; MESSENGER RNA; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; RNA; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE PROBE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTERLEUKIN-2; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KINETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; RNA, MESSENGER; TACROLIMUS;

EID: 33845442742     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.10.181     Document Type: Article

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