Article
Phenotype switch and activation of T lymphocytes in patients with allergic rhinitis.
ORL; journal for oto-rhino-laryngology and its related specialties - 1 Jan 2000
Karlsson M G, Hellquist H B
Abstract excerpt
The peripheral blood of 17 patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis (birch pollen) and of 10 healthy subjects were analysed before and during a provocation study in the non-pollen season as well as during the pollen season. Analytical flow cytometry comprised a panel of monoclonal antibodies inve...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- CD4-CD8 Ratio
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes
- Female
- Flow Cytometry
- Humans
- Immunologic Memory
- Killer Cells, Natural
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Nasal Provocation Tests
- Phenotype
- Pollen
- Rhinitis, Allergic, Seasonal
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets
- T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer