Oligoclonal T cell expansions in patients with Behcet's disease

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 166-170

  Direskeneli, Haner ^a,b   Eksioglu Demiralp, E ^a   Kibaroglu, A ^a   Yavuz, S ^a   Ergun, T ^a   Akoglu, T ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Behcet's disease; T cell receptor; V usage

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BEHCET SYNDROME; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CLONE CELLS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 0033011581     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1999.00931.x     Document Type: Article

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