Airway infection in stable lung transplant patients is associated with decreased intracellular T-helper type 1 pro-inflammatory cytokines in bronchoalveolar lavage T-cell subsets

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 99-105

  Hodge, G ^a,b   Hodge, S ^b   Reynolds, P N ^b   Holmes, M ^b  

^a WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Airway infection; Bronchoalveolar lavage; Flow cytometry; Intracellular pro inflammatory Th1 cytokines; Lung transplant

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; TH1 CELL;

ADULT; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INTERLEUKIN-2; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TH1 CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 40849116368     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2007.00236.x     Document Type: Article

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