Interleukin-12: A proinflammatory cytokine with immunoregulatory functions that bridge innate resistance and antigen-specific adaptive immunity

Annual Review of Immunology

Volumn 13, Issue , 1995, Pages 251-276

  Trinchieri, Giorgio ^a  

^a WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

antigen presenting cells; innate resistance; lymphokine; NK cells; T cells

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 12;

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; CANCER; HEMATOPOIESIS; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFECTION; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0028970060     PISSN: 07320582     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.iy.13.040195.001343     Document Type: Review

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