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TUBERCULIN SENSITIVE LYMPHOCYTES IN HUMAN PERIPHERAL BLOOD FOLLOWING MANTOUX TEST
Author(s) -
Hughes Norman R
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
australian journal of experimental biology and medical science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.999
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1440-1711
pISSN - 0004-945X
DOI - 10.1038/icb.1968.168
Subject(s) - peripheral blood , tuberculin , mantoux test , tuberculin test , peripheral , immunology , tuberculosis , medicine , transformation (genetics) , pathology , chemistry , biochemistry , gene
Summary In two series of peripheral blood leucocyte cultures taken from a Mantoux positive donor it was found that following tuberculin (P.P.D) injections there were (1) increases in the number of cultured lymphocytes responding to P.P.D. by transformation to blast cells, and (2) decreases in the number of macrophages attaching to cover slips in the presence of P.P.D.