Impact of localized radiotherapy on blood immune cells counts and function in humans

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 199-204

  Belka, Claus ^a   Ottinger, Hellmut ^b   Kreuzfelder, Ernst ^b   Weinmann, Martin ^a   Lindemann, Monika ^b   Lepple Wienhues, Albrecht ^a   Budach, Wilfried ^a   Grosse Wilde, Hans ^b   Bamberg, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Immune function; Lymphocyte function; Lymphocyte subsets; Radiotherapy; Seminoma testis

Indexed keywords

CD16 ANTIGEN; CD19 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; B-LYMPHOCYTES; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORCHIECTOMY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMINOMA; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032916590     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(98)00130-3     Document Type: Article

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