The healthy rat prostate contains high levels of natural killer-like cells and unique subsets of CD4+ helper-inducer T cells: Implications for prostatitis

Journal of Urology

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1004-1010

  Vykhovanets, Eugene V ^a   Resnick, Martin I ^a   Marengo, Susan Ruth ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow cytometry; Lymphocyte subset; NK cell; Prostate; Prostatitis; T cell

Indexed keywords

CD16 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL ISOLATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HELPER CELL; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 13744256945     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000149130.06055.f2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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