Effects of crude antigenic fractions of Leishmania major on natural killer cell cytotoxicity, interferon-γ and interleukin-4 secretion from peripheric blood lymphocytes of unexposed individuals

Immunology Letters

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 115-118

  Turhan, Aslihan ^a   Mirshahidi, Saied ^a   Kevser Piskin A ^b   Çitak, Bahar ^c   Imir, Turgut ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity; Interferon ; Interleukin 4; Leishmania major; Natural killer cells

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ARTICLE; CYTOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CYTOTOXICITY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-4; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LYMPHOCYTES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031002646     PISSN: 01652478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-2478(96)02691-0     Document Type: Article

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