Participation of natural killer cells in the pathogenesis of bile duct lesions in biliary atresia

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 99-108

  Okamura, Atsushi ^a,b   Harada, Kenichi ^a   Nio, Masaki ^b   Nakanuma, Yasuni ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD16 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CX3CR1; FRACTALKINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BILE DUCT INJURY; BILIARY EPITHELIAL CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL MIGRATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD56; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; BILIARY ATRESIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHEMOKINE CX3CL1; CHEMOTAXIS; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GPI-LINKED PROTEINS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLY I-C; RECEPTORS, CHEMOKINE; RECEPTORS, IGG;

EID: 84874655803     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2012-201097     Document Type: Article

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