Plasmapheresis affects T helper type-1/T helper type-2 balance of circulating peripheral lymphocytes

Therapeutic Apheresis

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 494-496

  Goto, Hirofumi ^a   Matsuo, Hidenori ^a   Nakane, Shunya ^a   Izumoto, Hajime ^a   Fukudome, Takayasu ^a   Kambara, Chiaki ^a   Shibuya, Noritoshi ^a  

^a Nagasaki Kawatana Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Immunomodulation; Plasmapheresis; T helper type 1; T helper type 2

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; MILLER FISHER SYNDROME; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY, CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0035677629     PISSN: 10916660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-0968.2001.00386.x     Document Type: Article

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