Cytotoxic T cells: more weapons for new targets?

Cell Death: The Significance of Apoptosis

1980 • 7,281 citations

The Fas Death Factor

1995 • 4,070 citations

Efficacy of BCG Vaccine in the Prevention of Tuberculosis

1994 • 1,875 citations

Fas and Perforin Pathways as Major Mechanisms of T Cell-Mediated Cytotoxicity

1994 • 1,558 citations

Cytolytic T-cell cytotoxicity is mediated through perforin and Fas lytic pathways

1994 • 1,073 citations

Defensins: Antimicrobial and Cytotoxic Peptides of Mammalian Cells

1993 • 986 citations

Cytotoxic lymphocytes require granzyme B for the rapid induction of DNA fragmentation and apoptosis in allogeneic target cells

1994 • 844 citations

Ceramide: an intracellular signal for apoptosis

1995 • 604 citations

Relationship of the Manifestations of Tuberculosis to CD4 Cell Counts in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

1993 • 594 citations

Mechanisms of action on Escherichia coli of cecropin P1 and PR-39, two antibacterial peptides from pig intestine

1993 • 528 citations

The CTL's kiss of death

1995 • 504 citations

Purification of three cytotoxic lymphocyte granule serine proteases that induce apoptosis through distinct substrate and target cell interactions.

1992 • 447 citations

Epithelial Antibiotics Induced at Sites of Inflammation

1995 • 417 citations

ICE-like proteases in apoptosis

1995 • 353 citations

Efficacy of BCG vaccine in the prevention of tuberculosis. Meta-analysis of the published literature

1994 • 349 citations

Regulation of apoptosis in the immune system

1994 • 321 citations

NK-lysin, a novel effector peptide of cytotoxic T and NK cells. Structure and cDNA cloning of the porcine form, induction by interleukin 2, antibacterial and antitumour activity.

1995 • 279 citations

Human and murine cytotoxic T lymphocyte serine proteases: subsite mapping with peptide thioester substrates and inhibition of enzyme activity and cytolysis by isocoumarins

1991 • 255 citations

Cytotoxicity with target DNA breakdown by rat basophilic leukemia cells expressing both cytolysin and granzyme A

1992 • 243 citations

Association of Tuberculosis and M. tuberculosis-Specific Antibody Levels with HLA

1989 • 182 citations

Association of pulmonary tuberculosis and HLA in South India

1991 • 155 citations

Perforin and Granzymes: Crucial Effector Molecules in Cytolytic T Lymphocyte and Natural Killer Cell-Mediated Cytotoxicity

1995 • 153 citations

Amoebapores, a family of membranolytic peptides from cytoplasmic granules of Entamoeba histolytica: isolation, primary structure, and pore bacterial cytoplasmic membranes

1994 • 149 citations

An amphipathic helical motif common to tumourolytic polypeptide NK‐lysin and pulmonary surfactant polypeptide SP‐B

1995 • 147 citations

The isolation and sequence of a novel gene from a human functional T cell line.

1987 • 120 citations

Intestinal epithelial cells as watchdogs for the natural immune system

1995 • 111 citations

Tuberculosis in patients with various HLA phenotypes

1990 • 91 citations

BCG vaccination against tuberculosis: past disappointments and future hopes

1995 • 80 citations

Direct antimicrobial activity of T cells

1995 • 59 citations

Leprosy and tuberculosis—an epidemiological comparison

1984 • 41 citations

A cDNA clone expressed in natural killer and T cells that likely encodes a secreted protein.

1990 • 33 citations

Do light-induced pH changes within the chloroplast drive turnip yellow mosaic virus assembly?

1996 • 23 citations