γ-Interferon produced by CD8+ T cells infiltrating Kaposi's sarcoma induces spindle cells with angiogenic phenotype and synergy with human immunodeficiency virus-1 Tat protein: An immune response to human herpesvirus-8 infection?

Blood

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 956-967

  Fiorelli, Valeria ^b   Gendelman, Rita ^b   Sirianni, Maria Caterina ^b   Chang, Hsiao Kuey ^b   Colombini, Sandra ^b   Markham, Phillip D ^b   Monini, Paolo ^b   Sonnabend, Joseph ^b   Pintus, Aldo ^b   Gallo, Robert C ^b   Ensoli, Barbara ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL TRANSFORMATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATORY CELL; KAPOSI SARCOMA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DRUG SYNERGISM; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GENE PRODUCTS, TAT; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HIV-1; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MONOCYTES; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PHENOTYPE; SARCOMA, KAPOSI;

EID: 0032006891     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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