T lymphocyte lines isolated from atheromatous plaque contain cells capable of responding to Chlamydia antigens

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 261-269

  Curry, A J ^a   Portig, I ^a   Goodall, J C ^a   Kirkpatrick, P J ^a   Gaston, J S H ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Chlamydia immunology; hsp60; T lymphocytes

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60; INTERLEUKIN 2; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; TETANUS TOXOID; TUBERCULIN;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CELL ISOLATION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CHAPERONIN 60; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; DRUG SYNERGISM; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INTERLEUKIN-2; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 0033842383     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2000.01294.x     Document Type: Article

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