Article
Human spleen and peripheral blood lymphocytes activated by interleukin-2 have similar phenotypic and functional characteristics.
Journal of biological response modifiers - 1 Feb 1990
Voltarelli J C, Rayner A A, Garovoy M R, Stites D P
Abstract excerpt
Phenotypic markers and cytotoxic function were monitored in cultures of normal human mononuclear cells obtained from peripheral blood or spleen and stimulated by recombinant interleukin-2 (IL-2; 1,500 U/ml). Fresh spleen cells contained less than 5% natural killer (NK) cells (CD3-NKH1+), which increased about threefold after activation with IL-2. In both spleen and peripheral blood cultures, T cells with the NKH1...
Topics
- Antigens, Differentiation
- Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic
- Humans
- Interleukin-2
- Killer Cells, Lymphokine-Activated
- Phenotype
- Spleen
