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Cytokines and chronic rejection: a study in kidney transplant long-term survivors.
Transplantation - 27 Feb 2004
Uboldi de Capei Mariafederica, Dametto Ennia, Fasano Maria E, Messina Maria, Pratico' Loredana, Rendine Sabina, Segoloni Giuseppe, Curtoni Emilio S
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BACKGROUND: In part, the long-term survival of kidney transplants depends on the efforts to perform grafts with good human leukocyte antigen (HLA) compatibility, but there are other mechanisms that must induce some sort of tolerance and impair the anti-graft immune reaction. Because cytokines are one of the main components of immune response, we evaluated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of several cytokine...
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