Immune cell subsets at birth may help to predict risk of late-onset sepsis and necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants

Early Human Development

Volumn 93, Issue , 2016, Pages 9-16

  Bochennek, Konrad ^a   Fryns, Esther ^a   Wittekindt, Boris ^a   Buxmann, Horst ^a   Quaiser, Andrea ^a   Fischer, Doris ^a   Klingebiel, Thomas ^a   Koehl, Ulrike ^b   Schloesser, Rolf ^a   Huenecke, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cellular immune status; Double negative T cells; Late onset sepsis; Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC); Neonatology; NK cells

Indexed keywords

CD16 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD45RA ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; L SELECTIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; LATE ONSET SEPSIS; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEO KISS CRITERIA; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PREDICTION; PREMATURITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; BLOOD; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; SEPSIS;

BIOMARKERS; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; SEPSIS;

EID: 84959212940     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: 18726232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2015.10.018     Document Type: Article

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