Time post-lung transplant correlates with increasing peripheral blood T cell granzyme B and proinflammatory cytokines

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 584-590

  Hodge, G ^a   Hodge, S ^a   Li Liew, C ^a   Chambers, D ^b   Hopkins, P ^b   Reynolds, P N ^a   Holmes, M ^a,c  

^a ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b THE PRINCE CHARLES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c South Australian Lung Transplant Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

IFN ; Lung transplant; T cell granzyme B; Time post transplant; TNF

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANZYME B; INTERLEUKIN 2; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AZATHIOPRINE; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CYCLOSPORINE; CYTOKINES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRANZYMES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; LUNG; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; PREDNISOLONE; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TACROLIMUS; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 77955732421     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: 13652249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2010.04186.x     Document Type: Article

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