Cord Blood Natural Killer Cells Are Functionally and Phenotypically Immature but Readily Respond to Interleukin-2 and Interleukin-12

Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 527-536

  Gaddy, Jay ^a,b   Risdon, Grant ^b   Broxmeyer, Hal E ^a,b  

^a Department of Microbiology and Immunology ^*  (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD16 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; LYMPHOKINE ACTIVATED KILLER CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TARGET CELL DESTRUCTION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ANTIGENS, CD56; FETAL BLOOD; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INTERLEUKIN-12; INTERLEUKIN-2; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; RECEPTORS, IGG; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029060307     PISSN: 10799907     EISSN: 15577465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jir.1995.15.527     Document Type: Article

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