Editorial: Making sense of desensitization

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 443-444

  Gebel, H M ^a   Halloran, P F ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RITUXIMAB; HLA ANTIGEN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

BLOOD GROUP ABO INCOMPATIBILITY; DESENSITIZATION; EDITORIAL; GLOMERULOPATHY; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; CYTOLOGY; KIDNEY DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; RISK;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; DESENSITIZATION, IMMUNOLOGIC; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTES; RISK;

EID: 76949096459     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2009.03004.x     Document Type: Editorial

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