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On the utility of screening for anti-MICA antibodies before kidney transplantation

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boxed-textZou Y et al. (2007) Antibodies against MICA antigens and kidney-transplant rejection. N Engl J Med 357: 1293–1300

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  1. J-P Soulillou is Professor of Immunology and Head of the Institut de Transplantation et de Recherche en Transplantation at the Centre Hospitalier Jean Monnet, University of Nantes, Nantes, France.,

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