Detection of antibodies against major histocompatibility complex class I-related chain A in long-term renal graft recipients

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 239-242

  Li, Zuowei ^a   Luo, Ming ^a   Qiu, Jianxin ^a   Liu, Yong ^a   Fan, Yu ^a   Jahr, Fay M ^b   Cai, Junchao ^b   Terasaki, Paul I ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b TERASAKI FOUNDATION LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alloantibody; Antibody specificity; Graft function; Kidney transplant; Major histocompatibility complex class I related chain A

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIBODY; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1 RELATED CHAIN A ANTIBODY; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION;

AGED; ALLELES; ANTIBODIES, ANTI-IDIOTYPIC; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CREATININE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84862611812     PISSN: 13040855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6002/ect.2011.0103     Document Type: Article

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