Reduction in peripheral blood K cells and activated T cells in primary biliary cirrhosis.
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- 1 December 1977
- Vol. 18 (12), 1017-1020
- https://doi.org/10.1136/gut.18.12.1017
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.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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