Extracellular granzymes A and B in humans: Detection of native species during CTL responses in vitro and in vivo

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 3610-3616

  Spaeny Dekking, Elisabeth H A ^a,f   Hanna, William L ^b   Wolbink, Angela M ^a   Wever, Peter C ^a   Kummer, Alain J ^c   Swaak, Anton J G ^d   Middeldorp, Jaap M ^e   Huisman, Han G ^a   Froelich, Christopher J ^b   Hack, C Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e Organon Teknika   (Netherlands)

^f CENTRAL LABORATORY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANZYME A; GRANZYME B;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TARGET CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CELL DEGRANULATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GRANZYMES; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SOLUBILITY; SYNOVIAL FLUID; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032055984     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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