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Adenosine deaminase isozymes in tuberculous pleural effusion.
The Journal of laboratory and clinical medicine - 1 Apr 1996
Shibagaki T, Hasegawa Y, Saito H, Yamori S, Shimokata K
Abstract excerpt
Total adenosine deaminase (ADA) activity and its isozyme (ADA1 and ADA2) activities were measured in pleural effusions and serum samples from patients with tuberculosis and in those from patients with lung cancer as controls. To analyze the cellular source of ADA isozymes in tuberculous pleural effusions, ADA isozyme activities in CD2+ T lymphocytes purified from tuberculous pleural effusions and cultured human...
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