Cytokine mRNA expression in chronically rejected human renal allografts

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 564-570

  Nocera, Arcangelo ^a   Tagliamacco, Augusto ^a   De Palma, Raffaele ^b   Del Galdo, Francesco ^b   Ferrante, Andrea ^a   Fontana, Iris ^a   Barocci, Sergio ^a   Ginevri, Fabrizio ^c   Rolla, Davide ^a   Ravetti, Jean Louis ^a   Valente, Umberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronic allograft nephropathy; Chronic rejection; Cytokines, mRNA; Kidney transplantation; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; CYTOKINE; FAS ANTIGEN; FAS LIGAND; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 3; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACUTE DISEASE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EXPLANT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY HEMORRHAGE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEPHRECTOMY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH2 CELL; THROMBOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD95; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; APOPTOSIS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYTOKINES; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKINS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIGANDS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 4644279110     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2004.00227.x     Document Type: Article

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