Production of transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-β1) by blood monocytes from patients with different clinical forms of leprosy

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 330-334

  Goulart, I M B ^b   Mineo, J R ^b   Foss, N T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ELISA; Leprosy; Peripheral blood mononuclear cells; PGL 1; Transforming growth factor beta 1

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PHENOLIC GLYCOLIPID I; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ARTICLE; BORDERLINE LEPROSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM LEPROSUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY; MONOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GLYCOLIPIDS; HUMANS; LEPROSY, BORDERLINE; LEPROSY, LEPROMATOUS; LEPROSY, TUBERCULOID; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTES; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 0034531160     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2000.01376.x     Document Type: Article

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