Interleukin-2 production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with myasthenia gravis

European Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 160-163

  Utsugisawa, Kimiaki ^a   Nagane, Yuriko ^a   Obara, Daiji ^a   Kondoh, Ryushi ^a   Yonezawa, Hisashi ^a   Tohgi, Hideo ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interleukin 2; Myasthenia gravis; Peripheral blood mononuclear cells

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 2; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-2; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTES; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0037234998     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000069079     Document Type: Article

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