%0 Journal Article %T Detection of Donor-Derived Microparticles in the Peripheral Blood of a Hand Transplant Recipient During Rejection %A Joseph Y. Kim %A Otto O. Yang %A Theodoros Kelesidis %J Archive of "Transplantation Direct". %D 2017 %R 10.1097/TXD.0000000000000646 %X Microparticles (MPs) are released from the plasma membrane of activated or dying cells and bear surface molecules from those cells. We examined whether donor-derived MPs in the peripheral blood of the recipient could serve as a marker of tissue damage due to rejection of a transplanted hand %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5367748/