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SUBMITTER: Clatworthy MR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4148618 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 20110610 7
There has been increasing interest in the role played by B cells, plasma cells and their associated antibody in the immune response to an allograft, driven by the need to undertake antibody-incompatible transplantation and evidence suggesting that B cells play a role in acute cellular rejection and in acute and chronic antibody-mediated rejection. A number of immunosuppressive agents have emerged which target B cells, plasma cells and/or antibody, for example, the B cell-depleting CD20 antibody ...[more]