PLASMA OF INDIAN KALA-AZAR PATIENTS SUPPRESSES NATURAL-KILLER-CELL ACTIVITY IN-VITRO

Authors
MANNA PP CHAKRABARTI G BHATTACHARYA S MALLIK KK BASU D BANDYOPADHYAY S
Citation
Pp. Manna et al., PLASMA OF INDIAN KALA-AZAR PATIENTS SUPPRESSES NATURAL-KILLER-CELL ACTIVITY IN-VITRO, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 88(2), 1994, pp. 247-248
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath","Tropical Medicine
Journal title
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene → ACNP
ISSN journal
00359203
Volume
88
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
247 - 248
Database
ISI
SICI code
0035-9203(1994)88:2<247:POIKPS>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
Plasma from 12 patients in India with Leishmania donovani infection wa s shown by chromium release experiments to reduce the natural killer c ell activity of normal human peripheral blood mononuclear cells in vit ro by almost 50% on average, compared with the activity in normal huma n plasma or medium alone (P<0.005).