Use of allograft biopsies to assess thymopoiesis after thymus transplantation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 180, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 6354-6364

  Markert, M Louise ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Devlin, Blythe H ^a   Hoehner, Jeffrey C ^a   Rice, Henry E ^a   Skinner, Michael A ^a,b   Li, Yi Ju ^a   Hale, Laura P ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIOPSY; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGEORGE SYNDROME; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOPOIESIS; THYMUS ALLOGRAFT BIOPSY; THYMUS FUNCTION; THYMUS GRAFT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; THYMUS; TRANSPLANTATION;

BIOPSY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIGEORGE SYNDROME; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INFANT; MALE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 44449108745     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.180.9.6354     Document Type: Article

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