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Natural killer cell receptor repertoire and their ligands, and the risk of CMV infection after kidney transplantation.
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons - 1 Dec 2008
Hadaya K, de Rham C, Bandelier C, Bandelier C, Ferrari-Lacraz S, Jendly S, Berney T, Buhler L, Kaiser L, Seebach J D, Tiercy J M, Martin P Y, Villard J
Abstract excerpt
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is the most common viral complication after solid organ transplantation (SOT). Whilst current immunosuppression is known to impair antiviral-specific T-cell immunity in SOT, a potential role for natural killer (NK) cells not affected by immunosuppressive therapy remains to be determined. To address this, we compared the genotype of the NK immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) genes...
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