B-ware of allosensitized graft rejection

Blood

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 851-852

  Fowler, Daniel H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ALLOIMMUNITY; ANTIBODY DEPENDENT CELLULAR CYTOTOXICITY; APLASTIC ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T CELL DEPLETION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846857771     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 00064971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2006-11-056887     Document Type: Note

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