Cytokine gene expression in islets and thyroids of BB rats: IFN-γ and IL-12p40 mRNA increase with age in both diabetic and insulin-treated nondiabetic BB rats

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1315-1321

  Zipris, Danny ^a   Greiner, Dale L ^a   Malkani, Samir ^a   Whalen, Barbara ^a   Mordes, John P ^a   Rossini, Aldo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INSULIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL INFILTRATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOMODULATION; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THYROIDITIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSULIN; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-12; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RATS, INBRED BB; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDITIS;

EID: 0030070207     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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