Adoptive transfer of immunity to HBV in liver transplant patients: A step forward toward the proof of concept for therapeutic vaccination or a transient immunologic phenomenon?

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 14-17

  Shouval, Daniel ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIBODY; LAMIVUDINE; LARGE PRE S1 ANTIGEN; MIDDLE PRE S2 ANTIGEN; NUCLEOSIDE ANALOG; SMALL S ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LIVER CELL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; VACCINATION; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; VACCINATION;

EID: 33846190622     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20953     Document Type: Article

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