Editorial: Allograft fibrosis - Unmasking the players at the dance

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 201-202

  Mannon, R B ^a,b   Fairchild, R ^c  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 6; SMAD PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; CTGF PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ALLOGRAFT; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; DANCING; EDITORIAL; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; MYOFIBROBLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; UPREGULATION; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; FIBROSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY;

CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 75149119682     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2009.02926.x     Document Type: Editorial

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