Modified Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Precursor Frequency Assay by Measuring Released Europium in a Time Resolved Fluorometer

Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-42

  Haque, Khawaja ^a   Truman, Carol ^a   Dittmer, Ian ^b   Laundy, Godfrey ^a   Denning Kendall, Patricia ^a   Hows, Jill ^a   Feest, Terry ^b   Bradley, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTH BRISTOL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity; Europium release; Fluorometry; Recombinant interleukin 2; T lymphocytes; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHELATING AGENT; EUROPIUM; INTERLEUKIN 2; PENTETIC ACID; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; COLD; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; DRUG EFFECT; FLUOROMETRY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHELATING AGENTS; COLD; CULTURE MEDIA; CYTOTOXICITY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; EUROPIUM; FLUOROMETRY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-2; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; PENTETIC ACID; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030628921     PISSN: 0004069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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