Whole-blood incubation method to study neutrophil cytoskeletal dynamics

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-66

  Mineshita, Masamichi ^a   Kimura, Toshiki ^a   Murai, Hiroshi ^a   Moritani, Chie ^a   Ishioka, Shinichi ^a   Kambe, Masayuki ^a   Yamakido, Michio ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

filamentous actin; formyl methionyl leucyl phenylalanine; neutrophil; platelet activating; whole blood incubation method

Indexed keywords

F ACTIN; FORMYLMETHIONYLLEUCYLPHENYLALANINE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CYTOSKELETON; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINS; BLOOD; CELL SEPARATION; CYTOSKELETON; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; N-FORMYLMETHIONINE LEUCYL-PHENYLALANINE; NEUTROPHILS; PLATELET ACTIVATING FACTOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031042943     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(96)00242-6     Document Type: Article

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