Helium-neon and nitrogen laser irradiation accelerates the phagocytic activity of human monocytes

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 571-574

  Hemvani, Nanda ^a   Chitnis, Dhananjay Sadashiv ^a   Bhagwanani, Nijram Satramdas ^a  

^a CHOITHRAM HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; IRRADIATION; LASER BEAMS; NEON; NITROGEN; PATHOLOGY; PULMONARY DISEASES;

HUMAN MONOCYTES; INFECTIOUS DISEASES; PHAGOCYTIC ACTIVITIES; TUBERCULAR CAVITORY LUNG DISEASES;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL SEPARATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELIUM NEON LASER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACELLULAR KILLING; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MONOCYTE; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; PHAGOCYTOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VOLUNTEER;

HELIUM; HUMANS; LASERS; MONOCYTES; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; NEON; NITROGEN; PHAGOCYTOSIS;

EID: 30044449087     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2005.23.571     Document Type: Article

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