Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 2 , Pages 166-173 , August 2009

Allospecific CD154+ T cells identify rejection-prone recipients after pediatric small-bowel transplantation

,Accepted 6 April 2009.

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 Supported in part by research grants from the Children's Hospital Research Foundation (to R.S.).

PII: S0039-6060(09)00232-3

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.04.006

Surgery
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