A novel one-step, highly sensitive fluorometric assay to evaluate cell- mediated cytotoxicity

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 157-167

  Nociari, Marcelo M ^a   Shalev, Assaf ^a   Benias, Petros ^a   Russo, Carlo ^a  

^a Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

AlamarBlue; Cell mediated cytotoxicity; CTL; Fluorescence; Natural killer activity; NK

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; FLUOROMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; COLORING AGENTS; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; FLUOROMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MICE; OXAZINES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; XANTHENES;

EID: 0031852098     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(98)00028-3     Document Type: Article

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