Familial cancer: Depressed NK-cell cytotoxicity in healthy and cancer affected members

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 6-10

  Montelli, Terezinha C B ^a   Peraçoli, Maria Terezinha S ^a   Gabarra, Roberto C ^a   Soares, Angela M V C ^a   Kurokawa, Cilmery Suemi ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cytotoxic activity; Familial cancer; Glioblastoma; Natural killer cells; T cell subsets

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOTOXICITY; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; FEMALE; GENETICS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEOPLASM; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PEDIGREE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CD4-CD8 RATIO; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CYTOTOXICITY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PEDIGREE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 0035287022     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2001000100003     Document Type: Article

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