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Materials and Methods: The importance of the stimulation index values in MLC and mMLC tests was evaluated in 59 patients who received HSCs from human leukocyte antigen-identical sibling donors.

The predictive value of stimulation index calculated by modified mixed lymphocyte culture in the detection of GVHD following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation / hematopoetik kok hucre naklini takiben gelisen GVHD'nin saptanmasinda Modifiye mikst lenfosit kultur testinde hesaplanan stimulasyon indeksinin belirleyici degeri

The result indicated that the biomaterials with and without ConA showed immunosuppression as seen by the stimulation index when it was compared with the conA which was used as control.

In-vitro biocompatibility evaluation of crosslinked cellular and acellular bovine pericardium

Although the stimulation index of T-lymphocyte proliferation was not affected in the current study, we found that dietary supplementation of 100 mg/kg COS not only increased the concentrations of serum IL-1[beta] and IL-6 on d 21 but also enhanced the concentrations of IFN-[gamma] and TNF-[alpha] on d 42 in broiler chickens.

Effect of chito-oligosaccharide supplementation on immunity in broiler chickens

Two measures of response were used in this paper: stimulation index, a measure of so-called 'cell-mediated immunity' (CD4 responses), and [gamma]-interferon enzyme-linked immunosorbent spot (ELISPOT), which demonstrates the presence and frequency of [gamma]-interferon-secreting cells, a marker for the presence of cytotoxic T-cells (CD8 cells).

Treatment with autologous antigen-presenting cells activated with the HER-2 based antigen Lapuleucel-T: results of a phase I study in immunologic and clinical activity in HER-2 overexpressing breast cancer

Results were expressed as stimulation index (counts per minute of stimulated cultures divided by counts per minute of unstimulated cultures).