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CD4+ and CD8+ subsets: naive and memory cells in the peripheral blood of patients with systemic sclerosis.
Clinical rheumatology - 1 Mar 1994
Gorla R, Airò P, Malagoli A, Carella G, Prati E, Brugnoni D, Franceschini F, Cattaneo R
Abstract excerpt
Systemic Sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma) is associated with several immunological abnormalities, including altered proportion between lymphocyte subsets. Peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets from 25 patients with SSc were studied by two-colour flow cytometry using monoclonal antibodies against CD45RA and CD29 markers, which allow a dissection of CD4+ and CD8+ populations into 'naive' and 'memory' subsets. A decrease...
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