Spontaneous ex vivo apoptosis of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in patients with head and neck cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1263-1273

  Saito, Takao ^a   Kuss, Iris ^a   Dworacki, Grzegorz ^a   Gooding, William ^a   Johnson, Jonas T ^a,b   Whiteside, Theresa L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD14 ANTIGEN; CD16 ANTIGEN; CD19 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; DNA FRAGMENT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD CANCER; HUMAN; MALE; MONOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NECK CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD; APOPTOSIS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0032979606     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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