Increased nitric oxide (NO) production by antigen-presenting dendritic cells is responsible for low allogeneic mixed leucocyte reaction (MLR) in primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC)

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 94-101

  Yamamoto, K ^a   Akbar, Fazle ^a   Masumoto, T ^a   Onji, M ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dendritic cells; Nitric oxide; Primary biliary cirrhosis

Indexed keywords

CD86 ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION; MALE; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DENDRITIC CELLS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE TEST, MIXED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; OMEGA-N-METHYLARGININE;

EID: 0031689311     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1998.00696.x     Document Type: Article

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