Impaired production of Th1 cytokines and increased frequency of Th2 subsets in PBMC from advanced cancer patients

Anticancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5 D, 1998, Pages 3951-3955

  Sato, Manami ^a   Goto, Shigenori ^b   Kaneko, Ryuta ^a   Ito, Masayosi ^a   Sato, Shinobu ^c   Takeuchi, Shoshichi ^b  

^a Institute of Bioregulation   (Japan)

^b Kitatama Hospital   (Japan)

^c Yokohama Sato Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Single cell assay; Th1; Th2; TNF

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADVANCED CANCER; CELL CULTURE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; NEOPLASMS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0031774084     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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