Interleukin-21: An interleukin-2 dependent player in rejection processes

Transplantation

Volumn 83, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1485-1492

  Baan, Carla C ^a   Balk, Aggie H M M ^a   Dijke, I Esmé ^a   Korevaar, Sander S ^a   Peeters, Annemiek M A ^a   De Kuiper, Ronella P ^a   Klepper, Mariska ^a   Zondervan, Pieter E ^a   Maat, Lex A P W M ^a   Weimar, Willem ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allogeneic reactions; Heart transplantation; Immunosuppression; Interleukin 21

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 21; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ALLOIMMUNITY; ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CARDIAC PATIENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; HEART GRAFT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; UPREGULATION;

CELL PROLIFERATION; COHORT STUDIES; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; ENDOCARDIUM; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKINS; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE TEST, MIXED; MYOCARDIUM; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-21; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 34250648038     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000264998.23349.54     Document Type: Article

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