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World J Gastroenterol. Jan 21, 2011; 17(3): 343-348
Published online Jan 21, 2011. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v17.i3.343
T-regulatory lymphocytes in peripheral blood of gastric and colorectal cancer patients
Antoni M Szczepanik, Maciej Siedlar, Marek Sierzega, Dominika Goroszeniuk, Karolina Bukowska-Strakova, Antoni Czupryna, Jan Kulig
Antoni M Szczepanik, Marek Sierzega, Antoni Czupryna, Jan Kulig, 1st Department of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, 31-501 Krakow, Poland
Maciej Siedlar, Karolina Bukowska-Strakova, Department of Clinical Immunology Polish-American Institute of Pediatrics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, 30-663 Krakow, Poland
Dominika Goroszeniuk, SHO Orthopaedics, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth NHS Trust, Derriford Road, Plymouth, PL6 8DH, United Kingdom
Author contributions: Szczepanik AM, Siedlar M and Sierzega M made substantial contributions to the conception, design, drafting and critical revision of the article; Goroszeniuk D, Czupryna A and Kulig J analyzed the data and contributed to drafting the paper; Bukowska-Strakova K contributed to lymphocyte subpopulation analysis, data acquisition and interpretation; all authors approved the published version of the paper.
Supported by Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland Grants 2P05C 001 29 and K/PBW/000421
Correspondence to: Antoni M Szczepanik, MD, 1st Department of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, 40 Kopernika street, 31-501 Krakow, Poland. msszczep@cyf-kr.edu.pl
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Received: July 12, 2010
Revised: August 27, 2010
Accepted: September 3, 2010
Published online: January 21, 2011
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