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ArticleCase reports in dermatological medicine2014

Expansion of natural killer cells in peripheral blood in a Japanese elderly with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1-related skin lesions.

Shinsaku Imashuku, Naoko Kudo, Kagekatsu Kubo, Kouichi Ohshima

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Article in Case reports in dermatological medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Shinsaku ImashukuDivision of Hematology, Takasago Seibu Hospital, 1-10-41 Nakasuji, Takasago 676-0812, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-9795-0819
Naoko KudoDivision of Hematology, Takasago Seibu Hospital, 1-10-41 Nakasuji, Takasago 676-0812, Japan.
Kagekatsu KuboDivision of Internal Medicine, Takasago Seibu Hospital, Takasago 676-0812, Japan.
Kouichi OhshimaDepartment of Pathology, School of Medicine, Kurume University, Kurume 830-0011, Japan.
Takasago (Japan) · JPKurume University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural killer (NK) cells were proposed to play an important role in the pathogenesis of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1- (HTLV-1-) associated neurologic disease. Our patient was a 77-year-old Japanese man, who had been treated for infective dermatitis associated with HTLV-1 for nearly 10 years. When referred to us, he had facial eczema/edema as well as extensive dermatitis at the neck/upper chest and nuchal area/upper back regions. Dermal lesions had CD3+CD4+ cells, but no NK cells. Flow cytometry of his peripheral blood showed a phenotype of CD2+ (97%), CD3+ (17%), CD4+ (12%), CD7+ (94%), CD8+ (6%), CD11c+ (70%), CD16+ (82%), CD19+ (0%), CD20+ (0%), CD56+ (67%), HLA-DR+ (68%), and NKp46+ (36%). Absolute numbers of CD56+NK cells in the peripheral blood were in a range of 986/μL-1,270/μL. The expanded NK cells in the peripheral blood are considered to be reactive, to maintain the confinement of the HTLV-1-positive CD4+ cells in the skin, and to prevent the progression of the disease.

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