Allospecific CD154+ T-cytotoxic memory cells identify recipients experiencing acute cellular rejection after renal transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 433-438

  Ashokkumar, Chethan ^a   Shapiro, Ron ^b   Tan, Henkie ^b   Ningappa, Mylarappa ^a   Elinoff, Beth ^b   Fedorek, Sheila ^b   Sun, Qing ^a   Higgs, Brandon W ^a   Randhawa, Paramjeet ^b   Humar, Abhinav ^b   Sindhi, Rakesh ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Allospecific; Rejection; T cells

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; CD40 LIGAND; HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLOIMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CD40 LIGAND; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; ISOANTIGENS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; TACROLIMUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051799877     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e318225276d     Document Type: Article

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