Interleukin (IL) 4, the cytokine that isn't there: Reactivity of IL-4 antibodies with cells in IL-4 -/- mice

Transplantation

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 911-914

  Mottram, P L ^b   Purcell, L J ^b   Han, W R ^b   Maguire, J ^a   Stein Oakley, A N ^a  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE ISOLATION; HEART GRAFT; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; IMMUNOREGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPLEEN;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD4; CELL LINE; CYTOKINES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTERLEUKIN-4; LYMPHOCYTES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0030942447     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199703270-00022     Document Type: Article

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