Transplantation Proceedings
Volume 36, Issue 6 , Pages 1728-1731 , July 2004

Humoral sensitization against rejected grafts: Specific antibodies to graft immunogenic amino acid triplets

  • A. Iniotaki-Theodoraki

      Affiliations

    • National Tissue Typing Center, General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece (A.I.-T., E.K., M.A., C.S.-G.)
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Dr Aliki Iniotaki-Theodoraki, National Tissue Typing Center, General Hospital of Athens, 34 Davaki Street, 174 55, Alimos, Athens, Greece
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  • E. Kalogeropoulou

      Affiliations

    • National Tissue Typing Center, General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece (A.I.-T., E.K., M.A., C.S.-G.)
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  • M. Apostolaki

      Affiliations

    • National Tissue Typing Center, General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece (A.I.-T., E.K., M.A., C.S.-G.)
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  • I.N. Doxiadis

      Affiliations

    • Immunohaematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands (I.N.D.)
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  • C. Stavropoulos-Giokas

      Affiliations

    • National Tissue Typing Center, General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece (A.I.-T., E.K., M.A., C.S.-G.)

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PII: S0041-1345(04)00670-0

doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2004.06.005

Transplantation Proceedings
Volume 36, Issue 6 , Pages 1728-1731 , July 2004

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