Optimizing a limiting dilution culture system for quantifying the frequency of interleukin-2-producing alloreactive T helper lymphocytes

Transplantation

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 472-479

  Hornick, Philip I ^a,b   Brookes, Paul A ^a   Mason, Philip D ^a   Taylor, Kenneth M ^a   Yacoub, Magdi H ^b   Rose, Marlene L ^b   Batchelor, Richard ^a   Lechler, Robert I ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HAREFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2;

ALLOIMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CULTURE MEDIUM; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPLANTATION;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-2; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE TEST, MIXED; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0030876989     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199708150-00017     Document Type: Article

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