Detection of cardiac allograft rejection by real-time PCR analysis of circulating mononuclear cells

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 513-517

  Schoels, M ^a   Dengler, T J ^a   Richter, R ^a   Meuer, S C ^a   Giese, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allograft rejection; Cardiac transplantation; Detection of transplant rejection; Gene Expression analysis

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR3; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTOKINE; EPITHELIAL DERIVED NEUTROPHIL ACTIVATING FACTOR 78; FAS ANTIGEN; GRANZYME B; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PERFORIN; RANTES; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANTIGENS, CD95; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; APOPTOSIS; CHEMOKINES, CXC; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAFT REJECTION; GRANZYMES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LIGANDS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES; RANTES; RECEPTORS, CHEMOKINE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 4644254604     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2004.00197.x     Document Type: Article

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