Heat shock protein 27 is associated with freedom from graft vasculopathy after human cardiac transplantation.
Experimental studies have suggested that protective genes protect allografts from cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV), the major complication after cardiac transplantation. Here we have sought to confirm this hypothesis using long-term heart transplant recipients. Twenty-two patients that were 9 ye...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2005
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