West African donors have high percentages of activated cytokine producing T cells that are prone to apoptosis

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 69-75

  Kemp, Kåre ^a   Akanmori, B D ^b   Hviid, L ^a  

^a University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^b University of Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Infection; T cells; Th1 Th2

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR DELTA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GAMMA CHAIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENMARK; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GHANA; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTOPOIESIS; MALARIA; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; VIRUS INFECTION;

APOPTOSIS; BLOOD; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; EUROPE; GHANA; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TH2 CELLS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0034781895     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2001.01657.x     Document Type: Article

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