Perforin: More than just an effector molecule

Immunology Today

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 254-256

  Stepp, Susan E ^a   Mathew, Porunelloor A ^b   Bennett, Michael ^a   De Saint Basile, Geneviève ^c   Kumar, Vinay ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c Cedex   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAS LIGAND; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; PERFORIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL DESTRUCTION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENETIC DISORDER; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFANT; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SINUS HISTIOCYTOSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

EID: 0034087520     PISSN: 01675699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01622-4     Document Type: Short Survey

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