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Lack of Suppressor T Cells in Renal Transplant Recipients and Activation by Aminophylline

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In Vivo Immunology

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 149))

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A striking parallel between the failure to improve recent transplant results and unchanging transplant immunosuppression exists today. The present study was undertaken in order to clarify whether aberrations of suppressor T cells occur in renal transplant recipients and whether activation of this immunoregulatory T cell subset by aminophylline administration could have any beneficial effect in the treatment of acute steroid resistant rejection of the transplanted kidney.

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  1. Clinical Laboratory and Transplantation Unit, Department of Urology, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tikva and the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

    Batya Shohat, Zaki Shapira, Henry Joshua & Ciro Servadio

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  1. University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Paul Nieuwenhuis  & A. A. van den Broek  & 

  2. NCI-Frederick Cancer Research Facility, Frederick, Maryland, USA

    M. G. Hanna Jr.

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Shohat, B., Shapira, Z., Joshua, H., Servadio, C. (1982). Lack of Suppressor T Cells in Renal Transplant Recipients and Activation by Aminophylline. In: Nieuwenhuis, P., van den Broek, A.A., Hanna, M.G. (eds) In Vivo Immunology. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 149. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9066-4_94

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