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Perforin expression in cytotoxic lymphocytes from patients with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and their family members.
Blood - 1 Jan 2002
Kogawa Kazuhiro, Lee Susan M, Villanueva Joyce, Marmer Daniel, Sumegi Janos, Filipovich Alexandra H
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the perforin gene have been described in some patients with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), but the role of perforin defects in the pathogenesis of HLH remains unclear. Four-color flow cytometric analysis was used to establish normal patterns of perforin expression for control subjects of all ages, and patterns of perforin staining in cytotoxic lymphocytes (natural killer [NK] cells, CD8(+)...
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