A possible role of soluble HLA-I molecule in the immunomodulatory effects of therapeutic apheresis

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL.1, 2014, Pages

  Ghio, Massimo ^a   Contini, Paola ^a   Ansaldi, Filippo ^a   Ubezio, Gianluca ^a   Setti, Maurizio ^a   Risso, Marco ^b   Tripodi, Gino ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ANTIGEN BINDING; APHERESIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; VASCULITIS;

ADSORPTION; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD95; BLOOD COMPONENT REMOVAL; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NEUTROPHILS; PLASMA; PLASTICS; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY, CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING; PROTEIN FOLDING; SOLUBILITY; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 84893967103     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2013.0026-13     Document Type: Letter

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