Title : Cytokine profile of t lymphocytes from peripheral blood and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis.

Pub. Date : 2007 Mar

PMID : 17309780






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1 Upon stimulation with phorbol 12-myristate acetate/ionomycin for 6 h, tuberculin-negative patients had a significantly higher proportion of IFN-gamma-producing CD4(+) T lymphocytes in BALF than in peripheral blood, while both CD4(+) and CD8(+) T-lymphocyte subsets in BALF of tuberculin-positive patients secreted more IFN-gamma than their peripheral blood counterparts. Ionomycin CD8a molecule Homo sapiens