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Predominance of type 1 CD4+ T cells in human abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Clinical and experimental immunology - 1 Dec 2005
Galle C, Schandené L, Stordeur P, Peignois Y, Ferreira J, Wautrecht J-C, Dereume J-P, Goldman M
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The functional repertoire of T cells in abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and the exact nature of aortic wall adaptive cellular immune responses still remains a matter of debate. In this study, we sought to determine whether type 1 or type 2 responses occur predominantly in human aneurysmal aortic lesions. We first examined the phenotype and cytokine secretion profile of T lymphocytes freshly isolated from...
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