| Literature DB >> 304826 |
G P Sandilands, R N Macsween, K G Gray, R J Holden, P Mills, F M Reid, M A Thomas, G Watkinson.
Abstract
Lymphocyte subpopulations were measured in the peripheral blood of 13 patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), 13 with chronic active hepatitis (CAH), and 16 age- and sex-matched normal subjects. A significant, relative and absolute, reduction in activated T cells and K cells, compared with that in normal subjects, was found in PBC but not in CAH. The reduction in K cells observed in PBC was found to be accompanied by a parallel decrease in lymphocyte-mediated antibody-dependent cytotoxicity.Entities:
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Year: 1977 PMID: 304826 PMCID: PMC1411832 DOI: 10.1136/gut.18.12.1017
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Gut ISSN: 0017-5749 Impact factor: 23.059