Intrahepatic detection of FOXP3 gene expression after liver transplantation using minimally invasive aspiration biopsy

Transplantation

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 819-823

  Demirkiran, Ahmet ^a   Baan, Carla C ^a   Kok, Alice ^a   Metselaar, Herold J ^a   Tilanus, Hugo W ^a   Van Der Laan, Luc J W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

FOXP3; Hepatitis C virus recurrence; Intrahepatic; Liver transplantation; Regulatory T cells

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION;

ADULT; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 34147174973     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000258597.97468.88     Document Type: Article

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