Assessment by flow cytometry of intracellular cytokine production in the peripheral blood cells of renal transplant recipients

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 395-401

  Magee, Colm C ^a   Denton, Mark D ^a   Womer, Karl L ^a   Khoury, Samia J ^a   Sayegh, Mohamed H ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic rejection; Cytokine; Flow cytometry; Renal; Transplant

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; CYTOKINE; DACLIZUMAB; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECIPIENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MONITORING, IMMUNOLOGIC; MONOCYTES; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 4043114885     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2004.00179.x     Document Type: Article

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