Kidney transplantation: How shall we deal with marginal cases ? Future prospects from basic research

Acta Urologica Japonica

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 481-484

  Ichimaru, Naotsugu ^a,b   Yazawa, Koji ^a   Takahara, Shiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Osaka Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbamylated erythropoietin; Hepatocyte growth factor; Kidney transplantation

Indexed keywords

CARBAMYLATED ERYTHROPOIETIN; CYTOKINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; METRON FACTOR 1; METRON FACTOR-1; SCATTER FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; ERYTHROPOIETIN; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; RATS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 77956964404     PISSN: 00181994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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