Superantigen-induced T cell responses in acute rheumatic fever and chronic: Rheumatic heart disease patients

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 100-106

  Bhatnagar, A ^a   Grover, A ^a   Ganguly, N K ^a,b  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Acute rheumatic fever; CD4+ CD8+ cells; Chronic rheumatic heart disease; Superantigen

Indexed keywords

STREPTOCOCCUS ANTIGEN; SUPERANTIGEN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLONAL ANERGY; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CYTOKINES; EXOTOXINS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SUPERANTIGENS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0032926759     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1999.00853.x     Document Type: Article

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