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Pancreas and kidney allograft-infiltrating cells in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation.
Transplantation - 27 May 1997
Boonstra J G, Deckers J G, Laterveer J C, Price V, van Es L A, Bruijn J A, Daha M R, van der Woude F J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Rejection after pancreas-kidney transplantation may occur isolated or concurrently in both grafts. To get more insight into the cellular mechanisms underlying these rejection episodes, we compared the functional characteristics of pancreas and kidney graft-infiltrating T cells. METHODS: Graft-infiltrating T cell (GIC) lines were cultured from simultaneously taken pancreas and kidney biopsies from...
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