Mucins Bearing the Cancer-associated Sialosyl-Tn Antigen Mediate Inhibition of Natural Killer Cell Cytotoxicity

Cancer Research

Volumn 52, Issue 17, 1992, Pages 4741-4746

  Itzkowitz, Steven H ^a,c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Ciba Corning Diagnostics Corporation   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ANTIGEN; SIALIC ACID; SIALOMUCIN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER IMMUNOLOGY; CELL STRAIN K 562; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; LUNG CANCER; NATURAL KILLER CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND;

AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; ANIMAL; ANTIGENS, TUMOR-ASSOCIATED, CARBOHYDRATE; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MUCINS; SHEEP; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0026758685     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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