Monocytesmacrophages in kidney allograft intimal arteritis: No association with markers of humoral rejection or with inferior outcome

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1979-1986

  Kozakowski, Nicolas ^a   Böhmig, Georg A ^a   Exner, Markus ^a   Soleiman, Afschin ^a   Huttary, Nicole ^a   Nagy Bojarszky, Katalin ^a   Ecker, Rupert C ^b   Kikić, Z Eljko ^a   Regele, Heinz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b TissueGnostics GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Intimal arteritis; Kidney allograft; Lymphocyte; Macrophage; Monocyte

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BELATACEPT; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4D; CYCLOSPORIN; FINGOLIMOD; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; MARKER; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS; CD68 ANTIGEN, HUMAN; DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGEN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ANALYSIS; ARTERITIS; ARTICLE; CAPILLARITIS; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLOMERULITIS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTIMAL ARTERITIS; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCYTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; T LYMPHOCYTE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INTIMA; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD3; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; ARTERITIS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTES; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 67651115794     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfp045     Document Type: Article

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