Background: Cytotoxic CD8+ T cells, as essential parts of the adaptive immune system, play pivotal roles in anti-tumor immune responses. It is well documented that cytokine expression profiles and activation status of these cells during anti-tumor immune responses affect the outcome of host-tumor interaction. Objective: To investigate the percentages of CD8+ lymphocytes and their subsets in...

Background: CD4+ and CD8+ T cells are the main types of lymphocytes in cell-mediated immunity and play a central role in the induction of efficient immune responses against tumors. The frequencies of T cell subtypes in the peripheral blood and tumor tissues, and draining lymph nodes (dLN) can be considered as useful markers for evaluation of the immune system in cancers. Methods: In this study,...

Background: Regulatory T cells have been suggested to have a protective role against acute rejection in allograft recipients. However, there is little information available about their contribution to chronic rejection process. The role of transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF- β1) as a profibrogenic and/or immunoregulatory cytokine in renal allografts is also controversial. Objectives: To eva...

local inflammatory processes in the gastric mucosa are followed by extensive immune cell infiltration, resulting in chronic active gastritis characterized by a marked infiltration of t(h)1 cytokine-producing cd4+ and cd8+t-cells objective. to investigate the correlation between cd4+/cd8+ t-cells in gastric mucosa with endoscopic appearance in chronic gastritis with or without h.pylori infection...

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behcet disease (bd) is a systemic inflammatory disease of the unknown etiology. there is however, some evidence to suggest that immunological abnormalities are important in its pathogenesis, furthermore several t-cell abnormalities which may be quite relevant to autoimmune origin of the disease have been described. we report here our study of t-cell subsets, b and nk cells in 68 patients with b...

Unter dem Begriff der kutanen T-Zell-Lymphome (CTCL) wird eine Gruppe lymphoproliferativer Erkrankungen zusammengefasst, die durch Lokalisation neoplastischer T-Lymphozyten in Haut gekennzeichnet sind. Die Mycosis fungoides (MF) ist häufigste Form von CTCL; sie macht ∼60 % aller primären Lymphome aus. Neben klassischen MF sind zahlreiche klinische und histopathologische Varianten beschrieben wo...