Reduced Numbers of Blood Natural Regulatory T Cells in Stable Liver Transplant Recipients With High Levels of Calcineurin Inhibitors

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2290-2292

  San Segundo, D ^a   Fabrega E ^a   Lopez Hoyos M ^a   Pons, F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CYCLOSPORIN; TACROLIMUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANTIGENS, CD; CALCINEURIN; COHORT STUDIES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTERLEUKIN-2 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 34548682791     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.07.076     Document Type: Article

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