Establishment of Adult Peripheral Blood Lymphocyte Subset Reference Range for an Asian Population by Single-Platform Flow Cytometry: Influence of Age, Sex, and Race and Comparison with Other Published Studies

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 168-173

  Chng, Wee J ^a,b   Tan, Guat B ^b   Kuperan, Ponnudurai ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD19 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CHILD; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPPRESSOR CELL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; SINGAPORE;

EID: 0347758567     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.11.1.168-173.2004     Document Type: Article

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