Immunomodulation by vitamin B12: Augmentation of CD8+ T lymphocytes and natural killer (NK) cell activity in vitamin B12-deficient patients by methyl-B12 treatment

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 28-32

  Tamura, J ^a   Kubota, K ^b   Murakami, H ^c   Sawamura, M ^a   Matsushima, T ^a   Tamura, T ^a   Saitoh, T ^a   Kurabayshi, H ^b   Naruse, T ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CD8; Immunomodulation; NK cell; Vitamin B12

Indexed keywords

MECOBALAMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DEPENDENT CELLULAR CYTOTOXICITY; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; JAPAN; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION; MALE; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, PERNICIOUS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 0032924614     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1999.00870.x     Document Type: Article

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