Immunological function and nutritional status in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 46, Issue 28, 1999, Pages 2476-2482

  Iida, Keiko ^a   Kadota, Jun Ichi ^a   Kawakami, Kaoru ^a   Shirai, Ryo ^a   Abe, Koh ^a   Yoshinaga, Michiko ^a   Iwashita, Tetsuji ^a   Matsubara, Yuichi ^a   Ishimatsu, Yuji ^a   Ohmagari, Katsuhisa ^a   Kohno, Shigeru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Natural killer cells; Neutrophil function; Nutritional status

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; SUPEROXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFECTION COMPLICATION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MONOCYTE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

AGED; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; NEUTROPHILS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SUPEROXIDES;

EID: 0032864818     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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