Impact of Apoptosis in Acute Rejection Episodes After Heart Transplantation: Immunohistochemical Examination of Right Ventricular Myocardial Biopsies

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 943-946

  Koch, A ^a   Roth, W ^a   Steffek, T M ^a   Dengler, T J ^a   Haass, M ^a   Karck, M ^a   Sack, F U ^a   Schirmacher, P ^a   Schnabel, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; MARKER; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NICK END LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE SECTION;

APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 44849135930     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.03.034     Document Type: Article

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