Interleukin-7. Biology and implications for dermatology

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 129-137

  Möller, Peter ^a   Böhm, Markus ^a   Czarnetszki, Beate M ^a   Schadendorf, Dirk ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cutaneous T cell lymphoma; IL 7; Immunotherapy; Melanoma; T cell homing

Indexed keywords

INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 7;

CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOMA; MELANOMA; NATURAL KILLER CELL; REVIEW; SKIN INFLAMMATION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; B-LYMPHOCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTERLEUKIN-7; KILLER CELLS, LYMPHOKINE-ACTIVATED; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MICE; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-7; RECEPTORS, LYMPHOCYTE HOMING; SKIN NEOPLASMS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0029995850     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.1996.tb00107.x     Document Type: Review

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