Article
Natural killer cell proliferation and renal disease: a functional and phenotypic study.
Cytometry - 15 Jun 1996
Vargas J A, Gea-Banacloche J C, Ramon y Cajal S, Albarran F, Tebas P, Martinez-Lopez de Letona J, Durantez A
Abstract excerpt
We describe a 57-year-old woman who presented with a constitutional syndrome, glomerulonephritis, and lymphocytosis. The phenotypic study, using flow cytometry, showed an expansion of natural killer (NK) cells (CD2+, CD3-, CD16+, CD56+, and CD7+). We performed a functional study of peripheral blo...
Topics
- Antigens, CD
- Biomarkers
- CD3 Complex
- Cell Division
- Female
- Glomerulonephritis
- Humans
- Interleukin-2
- Killer Cells, Lymphokine-Activated
- Killer Cells, Natural
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear
- Lymphocytosis
- Middle Aged
- Mitogens
- Phenotype
- Phytohemagglutinins