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Cytotoxicity, Immunologic

"Cytotoxicity, Immunologic" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The phenomenon of target cell destruction by immunologically active effector cells. It may be brought about directly by sensitized T-lymphocytes or by lymphoid or myeloid "killer" cells, or it may be mediated by cytotoxic antibody, cytotoxic factor released by lymphoid cells, or complement.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cytotoxicity, Immunologic" by people in this website by year, and whether "Cytotoxicity, Immunologic" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 126 publications over 28 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2001
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