STUDIES ON TUBERCULOSIS: CHAPTER III. THE DERIVATION OF GIANT CELLS WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THOSE OF TUBERCULOSIS

1 December 1930

journal article
Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Vol. 52 (6_suppl_3) , 89-112
https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.52.90063.89

Abstract

1. There are two types of giant cells discriminated by their method of formation; one is derived from a single monocyte or epithelioid cell and the other by the fusion of cells.

Keywords

TUBERCULOSIS
FUSION OF CELLS
EPITHELIOID CELLS
PHAGOCYTOSIS
GIANT CELLS
TYPES OF GIANT
EPITHELIOID GIANT
MONOCYTE

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