Article
Immune deficiency in uremia: interleukin-2 production and responsiveness and interleukin-2 receptor expression and release.
Nephron - 1 Jan 1991
Donati D, Degiannis D, Homer L, Gastaldi L, Raskova J, Raska K
Abstract excerpt
We have studied the role of interleukin-2 (IL-2) and its receptors in the impaired in vitro lymphocyte response characteristic of hemodialysis patients treated by means of cuprophane membranes. The proliferative response of T lymphocytes as well as T-cell-dependent B cell proliferation after stim...
Topics
- Aged
- Cell Count
- Cell Division
- Cells, Cultured
- Down-Regulation
- Female
- Humans
- Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
- Interleukin-2
- Lectins
- Lymphocytes
- Male
- Middle Aged
