Liver grafts contain a unique subset of natural killer cells that are transferred into the recipient after liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 895-908

  Moroso, Viviana ^a   Metselaar, Herold J ^a   Mancham, Shanta ^a   Tilanus, Hugo W ^a   Eissens, Diana ^b   Van Der Meer, Arnold ^b   Van Der Laan, Luc J W ^a   Kuipers, Ernst J ^a   Joosten, Irma ^b   Kwekkeboom, Jaap ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD56 ANTIGEN; CD69 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANZYME; INTEGRIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; MONOKINE; PERFORIN; INTEGRIN ALPHA4BETA7; L SELECTIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL TRANSFER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DEGRANULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TH2 CELL; CELL MOTION; IMMUNOLOGY; LIVER; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANTIGENS, CD56; CELL MOVEMENT; HUMANS; INTEGRINS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; L-SELECTIN; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PHENOTYPE; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 77954169111     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22080     Document Type: Article

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