Frequencies of cytotoxic T lymphocyte precursor estimate in three different populations

Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 93-99

  Haque, Khawaja ^a   Truman, Carol ^a   Dittmer, Ian ^b,c   Denning Kendall, Patricia ^a   Hows, Jill ^a   Bradley, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTH BRISTOL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPIUM;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOTOXICITY; DILUTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MONONUCLEAR CELL; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; STEM CELL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADULT; CYTOTOXICITY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 0032783586     PISSN: 0125877X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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