Hepatocytes and IL-15: A favorable microenvironment for T cell survival and CD8+ T cell differentiation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 182, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 6149-6159

  Correia, Margareta P ^a,b   Cardoso, Elsa M ^a,c   Pereira, Carlos F ^a,e   Neves, Rui ^d   Uhrberg, Markus ^d   Arosa, Fernando A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES IUCS   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^e MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD56 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 15; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR NKG2A; PROTEIN P46; SILVER;

ARTICLE; BASAL CELL; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL EXPANSION; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVER CELL; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MICROENVIRONMENT; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; UPREGULATION;

CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-15; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 77952369069     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0802470     Document Type: Article

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