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A boy with X-linked hyper-IgM syndrome and natural killer cell deficiency.
Clinical and experimental immunology - 1 Feb 1997
Ostenstad B, Giliani S, Mellbye O J, Nilsen B R, Abrahamsen T
Abstract excerpt
We present a boy with hyper-IgM syndrome with a previously not reported mutation in the CD40 ligand gene. He also had a concomitant natural killer (NK) cell deficiency. He had no CD56+ or CD16+ cells and no NK activity as determined in 4 h chromium release cytotoxicity assay. After 5 days in culture with IL-2-containing medium, however, his peripheral blood mononuclear cells lysed both NK-sensitive and...
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