Lymphocyte subsets, macrophages and Langerhans cells in actinomycetoma and eumycetoma tissue reaction

Acta Tropica

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 377-384

  Guimarães, Claudia Cenci ^a   Castro, Luiz Guilherme M ^a   Sotto, M írian N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Immunohistochemistry; Immunopathology; Langerhans cells; Lymphocyte subsets; Macrophages; Mycetoma

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

LESION;

ACTINOMYCES; ADULT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; EPIDERMIS; EUMYCOTA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LANGERHANS CELL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MYCETOMA; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOGENESIS; SKIN DEFECT; T LYMPHOCYTE; TISSUE REACTION;

EID: 0142026981     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(03)00139-6     Document Type: Article

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