The essential role of B cell stimulatory factor 2 (BSF-2/il-6) for the terminal differentiation of B cells

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 332-344

  Muraguchi, Atsushi ^a   Hirano, Toshio ^a   Tang, Bo ^a   Matsuda, Tadashi ^a   Horii, Yasuhiro ^a   Nakajima, Koichi ^a   Kishimoto, Tadamitsu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN;

ANTIBODIES; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; HUMAN; HYBRIDOMAS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKINS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; POKEWEED MITOGENS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0023851809     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.167.2.332     Document Type: Article

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