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Evidence that human cardiac allograft acceptance is associated with a decrease in donor-reactive helper T lymphocytes.
Transplantation - 15 Mar 1995
DeBruyne L A, Renlund D G, Bishop D K
Abstract excerpt
We have reported that acute cardiac allograft rejection is associated with increased numbers of donor-reactive helper T lymphocytes (HTL) in the peripheral blood of patients. Further, increased frequencies of circulating donor-reactive HTL may predict allograft rejection episodes diagnosed by endomyocardial biopsy. The present study evaluates the relationship between donor-reactive HTL and allograft "acceptance"...
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