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HLA phenotype of lung lavage cells following heart-lung transplantation.
The Journal of heart transplantation - 1 Jan 2000
Paradis I L, Marrari M, Zeevi A, Duquesnoy R J, Griffith B P, Hardesty R L, Dauber J H
Abstract excerpt
A transplanted lung contains a full complement of immunocompetent lymphocytes and macrophages that are able to react immunologically with recipient lymphocytes and macrophages. In this study, the origin of lymphocytes and macrophages recovered from sequential bronchoalveolar lavages of six heart-lung transplantation recipients was determined by histocompatibility phenotyping. We found that during the first four...
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