Decreased levels of circulating regulatory NK cells in patients with head and neck cancer throughout all tumor stages

Anticancer Research

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3053-3057

  Wulff, Sandra ^a   Pries, Ralph ^a   Börngen, Kirsten ^a   Trenkle, Thomas ^a   Wollenberg, Barbara ^a,b  

^a University of Schleswig Holstein Campus Lübeck ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Immunomodulation; Natural killer cells

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CD56 ANTIGENBRIGHT+ NATURAL KILLER CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR ESCAPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD56; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68549117138     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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