Kidney allocation and the aging immune response

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 364, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1369-1370

  Tullius, Stefan G ^a   Milford, Edgar ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HLA MATCHING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENICITY; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; AGE; AGED; AGING; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TRANSPLANTATION; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953798838     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1103007     Document Type: Letter

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