Quantifying tumour-infiltrating lymphocyte subsets: A practical immuno-histochemical method

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 321, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 32-40

  Loughlin, Paula M ^a   Cooke, Timothy G ^a   George, W David ^a   Gray, Alison J ^b   Stott, David I ^c   Going, James J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c Division of Immunology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Colour image histogramming; Lab colour space; Measurement; Photoshop; Semi automated cell counting; Tumour infiltrating lymphocytes

Indexed keywords

CD20 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CALIBRATION; CANCER INVASION; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE;

ALGORITHMS; ANTIGENS, CD20; ANTIGENS, CD3; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIBRATION; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; LYMPHOCYTES, TUMOR-INFILTRATING; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33947302847     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2007.01.012     Document Type: Article

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