Donor-specific immune regulation by CD8+ lymphocytes expanded from rejecting human cardiac allografts

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 397-403

  Dijke, I E ^a   Caliskan, K ^a   Klepper, M ^a   De Kuiper, R ^a   Balk, A H M M ^a   Maat, A P W M ^a   Weimar, W ^a   Baan, C C ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute cellular rejection; Antigen specificity; Endomyocardial biopsy; Graft infiltrating lymphocytes; Heart transplantation; Human; Immune regulation

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; PREDNISONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SELECTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMMUNOREGULATION; MALE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 58849098447     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2008.02498.x     Document Type: Article

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