Primary vascularization of the graft determines the immunodominance of murine minor H antigens during organ transplantation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 187, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3997-4006

  Kwun, Jean ^a,c   Malarkannan, Subramaniam ^b   Burlingham, William J ^a   Knechtle, Stuart J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; MINOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; PEPTIDE; TETRAMER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DENDRITIC CELL; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE CELL; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCELLULAR CELL MIGRATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE TEST, MIXED; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MINOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 80054733899     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1003918     Document Type: Article

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