Article
Cytolytic activity against allogeneic human endothelia: resistance of cytomegalovirus-infected cells and virally activated lysis of uninfected cells.
Transplantation - 15 Jul 1998
Waldman W J, Knight D A, Adams P W
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) has been implicated as an exacerbating agent in the development of transplant vascular sclerosis; however, specific etiologic mechanisms remain unresolved. Based upon our previous observations that CMV-infected endothelial cells (ECs) stimulate proliferation and...
Topics
- Cell Division
- Cells, Cultured
- Cytomegalovirus
- Cytomegalovirus Infections
- Endothelium, Vascular
- Humans
- Hydrogen Peroxide
- Killer Cells, Natural
- Oxidants
- Phenotype
- T-Lymphocytes
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic
- Transplantation, Homologous