Article
Propagation and characterization of lymphocytes infiltrating livers of patients with primary biliary cirrhosis and autoimmune hepatitis.
Human immunology - 1 Jun 1990
Saidman S L, Demetris A J, Zeevi A, Duquesnoy R J
Abstract excerpt
Lymphocytes were propagated with interleukin 2 from liver tissue removed at transplantation from patients with primary biliary cirrhosis or autoimmune chronic active hepatitis. Phenotypic analysis of the cultured lymphocytes as well as the infiltrating cells in situ indicated that the culture tec...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Cells, Cultured
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
- Female
- Hepatitis, Chronic
- Humans
- Killer Cells, Natural
- Liver
- Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Phenotype
- T-Lymphocytes
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
