Local nerve damage in leprosy does not lead to an impaired cellular immune response or decreased wound healing in the skin

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 260-265

  Siddiqui, M Ruby ^a   Moreira, Andre L ^a,c   Negesse, Yohannes ^b   Taye, Genet A ^b   Hanekom, Willem A ^a,d   Haslett, Patrick A J ^a,e   Britton, Sven ^b,g   Kaplan, Gilla ^a,f  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Armauer Hansen Research Institute   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Weill Cornell Medicine   (United States)

^e Department of Microbiology and Immunology ^*  (United States)

^f PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD1 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; TUBERCULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; LANGERHANS CELL; LEPROSY; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN SENSATION; SKIN ULCER; T LYMPHOCYTE; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD1; ANTIGENS, CD3; ANTIGENS, CD8; BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KI-67 ANTIGEN; LEPROSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NEURITIS; TUBERCULIN TEST; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0037099188     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/341204     Document Type: Article

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