Involvement of both donor cytotoxic T lymphocytes and host NK1.1+ T cells in the thymic atrophy of mice suffering from acute graft-versus-host disease

Immunology

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 248-256

  Onoe, Y ^a   Harada, M ^a   Tamada, K ^a   Abe, K ^a   Li, T ^a   Tada, H ^a   Nomoto, K ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 12; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DONOR; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; LYMPH NODE CELL; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; THYMUS ATROPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HYBRIDOMAS; INTERLEUKIN-12; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0031750951     PISSN: 00192805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1998.00573.x     Document Type: Article

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