STAT4-associated natural killer cell tolerance following liver transplantation
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STAT4-associated natural killer cell tolerance following liver transplantation
OBJECTIVE Natural killer (NK) cells are important mediators of liver inflammation in chronic liver disease. The aim of this study was to investigate why liver transplants (LTs) are not rejected by NK cells in the absence of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) matching, and to identify a tolerogenic NK cell phenotype. DESIGN Phenotypic and functional analyses on NK cells from 54 LT recipients were p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gut
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0017-5749,1468-3288
DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2015-309395