Relevance of MICA Alleles Matching Rate and Posttransplant Rejection in Clinical LRD Organ Transplantations
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53309#.VLyjNcnQrzE Author(s) Liang He 1 , Gang Ji 2 , Zhang Zhang 2 , Chunsheng Xu 2 , Weizhong Wang 2 , Boquan Jin 2 , Guanglong Dong 3* Affiliation(s) 1 Department of General Surgery, Lanzhou Military District Hospital in Urumqi, Urumqi, China . 2 Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China . 3 Department of General Surgery, The General Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army, Beijing, China . ABSTRACT Objective: Recipients usually undergo posttransplant rejection in HLA-identical transplantations. Recent studies have shown that MHC class I related chain A (MICA) has been found to be associated with allograft survival. The goal of this study is to investigate the correlation between matching rate of MICA alleles an...