1st Edition

Minor Histocompatibility Antigens From the Laboratory to the Clinic

By Derry Roopenian, Elizabeth Simpson Copyright 2000
200 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

200 Pages
by CRC Press

With the widespread application of solid tissue and bone marrow transplantation as a treatment for an array of life threatening disorders, there is a pressing need for clinicians and experimentalists to understand the basis of immunological rejection of tissue transplants. While much previous work focuses on characterization of antigens encoded by the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) in this... Read more
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Biography

Derry Roopenian, Ph.D., The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, U.S.A. Elizabeth Simpson, M.A. Vet. M.B. F.Med. Sci. MRC Clinical Sciences Centre ICSM, Hammersmith Hospital, London, U.K.