Natural killer cell cytotoxicity in the peripheral blood, cervical lymph nodes, and tumor of head and neck cancer patients

Cancer Research

Volumn 48, Issue 17, 1988, Pages 5017-5022

  Mickel, Robert A ^a   Kessler, David J ^a   Taylor, Jeremy M G ^a   Lichtenstein, Alan ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOTOXICITY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LYMPH NODE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMAN; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOCYTES; MIDDLE AGE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0023710486     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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