Beyond C4d: The ultrastructural appearances of endothelium in ABO-incompatible renal allografts

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3101-3109

  Bröcker, Verena ^a,c   Pfaffenbach, Annika ^a   Habicht, Antje ^a   Chatzikyrkou, Christos ^a   Kreipe, Hans H ^a   Haller, Hermann ^a   Scheffner, Irina ^a   Gwinner, Wilfried ^a   Zilian, Eva ^a   Immenschuh, Stephan ^a   Schwarz, Anke ^a   Horn, Peter A ^b   Heinemann, Falko M ^b   Becker, Jan U ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ABO incompatible; Accommodation; Acute antibody mediated rejection; C4d; Electron microscopy; Kidney transplantation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4D; HLA ANTIBODY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO INCOMPATIBILITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULOPATHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ABO INCOMPATIBLE; ACCOMMODATION; ACUTE ANTIBODY MEDIATED REJECTION; C4D; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFTS; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT C4B; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 84890047959     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gft373     Document Type: Article

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