Article
Preferential activation of peripheral blood V gamma 9+ gamma/delta T cells by group A, B and C but not group D or F streptococci.
Clinical and experimental immunology - 1 Aug 1992
Bender A, Kabelitz D
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies have established that inactivated mycobacteria are potent and selective activators of V gamma 9+/V delta 2+ human gamma/delta T cells. Here we have analysed the proliferative response of human gamma/delta T cells to five serologically distinct groups of streptococci. While heat-inactivated streptococci of all five serogroups tested (A, B, C, D and F) induced a strong proliferative response in...
Topics
- Cells, Cultured
- Enterococcus faecalis
- Humans
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Phenotype
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta
- Streptococcus
- Streptococcus agalactiae
- Streptococcus pyogenes
- T-Lymphocytes
