Preferential expression of T-cell receptor Vβ-chains in atopic eczema

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 214-218

  Neuber, Karsten ^a   Löliger, Cornelius ^a   Köhler, Ingrid ^a   Ring, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; STAPHYLOCOCCUS TOXIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

CELLS, CULTURED; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; ENTEROTOXINS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-5; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 0029997929     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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