IL-12 is a central mediator of acute graft-versus-host disease in mice

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 689-699

  Williamson, Eilidh ^a   Garside, Paul ^a   Bradley, J Andrew ^a   Mowat, Allan McI ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HELPER CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOID HYPERPLASIA; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INTERLEUKIN-12; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA;

EID: 0030006734     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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