Differentiated Expression Patterns of Growth Factors in Routine Formalin-Fixed Endomyocardial Biopsies in the Early Postoperative Phase After Heart Transplantation

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 554-557

  Koch, A ^a   Schmidt, C I ^a   Dengler, T J ^a   Remppis, A ^a   Sack, F U ^a   Schirmacher, P ^a   Hagl, S ^a   Karck, M ^a   Schnabel, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACIDIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FORMALDEHYDE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR A; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR B; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GRAFT REJECTION; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 33847737035     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.12.018     Document Type: Article

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