Abstract |
Ten patients with atopic dermatitis and ten healthy control subjects, matched for age, sex, and skin color, were studied for their peripheral blood natural cell-mediated cytotoxic activity against K-562 human leukemia cell line target cells, using the sodium chromate Cr 51 release assay. There was a great reduction in the natural cytotoxic activity of the patients with atopic dermatitis compared with that of their respective control subjects; the patients with atopic dermatitis had a mean value of 41.9 alpha +/- 28.3% of that of the control subjects.
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Authors | N T Kusaimi, J J Trentin |
Journal | Archives of dermatology
(Arch Dermatol)
Vol. 118
Issue 8
Pg. 568-71
(Aug 1982)
ISSN: 0003-987X [Print] United States |
PMID | 7103526
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
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Topics |
- Adult
- Asthma
(immunology)
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
- Dermatitis, Atopic
(immunology)
- Female
- Humans
- Lymphocytes
(immunology)
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Rhinitis
(immunology)
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