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. 1977 Dec;18(12):1017–1020. doi: 10.1136/gut.18.12.1017

Reduction in peripheral blood K cells and activated T cells in primary biliary cirrhosis.

G P Sandilands, R N Macsween, K G Gray, R J Holden, P Mills, F M Reid, M A Thomas, G Watkinson
PMCID: PMC1411832  PMID: 304826

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.

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