Can sensitized lymphocytes retain reactivity to inner ear antigens after retrieval from frozen storage?

Laryngoscope

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 878-882

  Hughes, Gordon B ^a   Paulic, Zlatko M ^a   Shu, Suyu ^a   Fairchild, Robert L ^a   Barna, Barbara P ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INNER EAR DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION TEST; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHILD; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; LABYRINTH DISEASES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOGENS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMIDINE; TRITIUM;

EID: 0030790776     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199707000-00008     Document Type: Article

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