Patients with myelodysplastic syndromes show reduced frequencies of CD4 + CD8 + double-positive T cells

European Journal of Haematology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-90

  Fozza, Claudio ^a   Contini, Salvatore ^a   Virdis, Patrizia ^a   Galleu, Antonio ^a   Massa, Antonella ^a   Bonfigli, Silvana ^a   Longinotti, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANZYME B; HEMOGLOBIN; INTERLEUKIN 17; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ADULT; AGED; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GROUPS BY AGE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY ANEMIA; REFRACTORY CYTOPENIA WITH MULTILINEAGE DYSPLASIA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THYMOCYTE; TRANSFUSION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 83655161382     PISSN: 09024441     EISSN: 16000609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0609.2011.01708.x     Document Type: Letter

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