IL-15 mRNA expression is up-regulated in blood and cerebrospinal fluid mononuclear cells in multiple sclerosis (MS)

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 193-197

  Kivisakk P ^a   Matusevicius, D ^a   He, B ^a   Soderstrom M ^a   Fredrikson, S ^a   Link, H ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cytokines; IL 15; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 15; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-15; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTES; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0031905264     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1998.00478.x     Document Type: Article

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