Kidney transplantation

Assessing recent discoveries related to achieving clinical transplant tolerance and highlighting ongoing and future challenges, this work collects current insights on the pathways of acute rejection in kidney transplantation and methods for monitoring these pathways through molecular tests, and looks at new immunosuppressive agents under development and promising approaches for inducing tolerance that have emerged from experimental animal studies. Some specific subjects are chronic induction, steroid-free lymphocyte depletion protocols, and dendritic cells, tolerance, and therapy of organ allograft rejection. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).