A prospective analysis of the natural course of donor chimerism including the natural killer cell fraction after liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Verdonk, Robert C ^a   Haagsma, Elizabeth B ^a   Jongsma, Theo ^a   Porte, Robert J ^a   Roozendaal, Caroline ^a   Van Den Berg, Aad P ^a   Hepkema, Bouke G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AGE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD3- CD56+ CD16+ NATURAL KILLER CELL; CELL POPULATION; CHIMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DONOR AGE; DONOR CHIMERISM; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GENDER; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; ORGAN DONOR; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECIPIENT AGE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION CHIMERA; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE;

EID: 80051720062     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e318225283e     Document Type: Letter

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