Giant cell formation in sarcoidosis: Cell fusion or proliferation with non-division?

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 476-486

  Van Maarsseveen, T C M Th ^a   Vos, W ^a   Van Diest, P J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Multi nucleated giant cell; Radio nucleotide incorporation; Sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; HERMES ANTIGEN; THYMIDINE; TRITIUM; URIDINE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUSION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPITHELIOID CELL; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; GRANULOMATOSIS; HISTIOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SARCOIDOSIS;

ANTIGENS, CD44; APOPTOSIS; BIOPSY; CELL FUSION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; EPITHELIOID CELLS; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; GIANT CELLS; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODES; MACROPHAGES; RECEPTORS, CCR5; SARCOIDOSIS; STAINING AND LABELING; THYMIDINE; TRITIUM;

EID: 59249102500     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: 13652249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2008.03841.x     Document Type: Article

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