Hemodialysis vintage, black ethnicity, and pretransplantation antidonor cellular immunity in kidney transplant recipients

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1602-1606

  Augustine, Joshua J ^a   Poggio, Emilio D ^b   Clemente, Michael ^b   Aeder, Mark I ^a   Bodziak, Kenneth A ^a   Schulak, James A ^a   Heeger, Peter S ^b   Hricik, Donald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ADULT; ALLOIMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; ETHNICITY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY GRAFT; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 34248357387     PISSN: 10466673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2006101105     Document Type: Article

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