Article
Establishment of T-lymphoid cell lines from Morroccan patients with tropical spastic paraparesis.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Jul 1992
Farouqi B, Yahyaoui M, Alaoui F M, Noraz N, Sekkat S, Chkili T, Desgranges C, Benslimane A
Abstract excerpt
Two T-cell lines were established from peripheral blood mononuclear cells of two Moroccan patients with tropical spastic paraparesis and then named PR52 and PR144. The two cell lines showed a T lineage of activated CD4+ with high density of Tac+ (IL2 receptor). No expression of CD8 was observed....
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Western
- Cell Line
- DNA, Viral
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique
- Human T-lymphotropic virus 1
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Morocco
- Paraparesis, Tropical Spastic
- Phenotype
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- T-Lymphocytes