Immunological Aspects in Late Phase of Living Donor Liver Transplant Patients: Usefulness of Monitoring Peripheral Blood CD4+ Adenosine Triphosphate Activity

Aim. To evaluate whether the combination of the peripheral blood CD4+ adenosine triphosphate activity (ATP) assay (ImmuKnow assay: IMK assay) and cytochrome P450 3A5 (CYP3A5) genotype assay is useful for monitoring of immunological aspects in the patient followup of more than one year after living d...

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Main Authors: Shugo Mizuno, Yuichi Muraki, Kaname Nakatani, Akihiro Tanemura, Naohisa Kuriyama, Ichiro Ohsawa, Yoshinori Azumi, Masashi Kishiwada, Masanobu Usui, Hiroyuki Sakurai, Masami Tabata, Norihiko Yamamoto, Tomomi Yamada, Katsuya Shiraki, Yoshiyuki Takei, Tsutomu Nobori, Masahiro Okuda, Shuji Isaji
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:Clinical and Developmental Immunology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/982163