Coexpression of IL-6 and soluble IL-6R causes nodular regenerative hyperplasia and adenomas of the liver

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 5588-5597

  Maione, Domenico ^a   Di Carlo, Emma ^b   Li, Wei ^c   Musiani, Piero ^b   Modesti, Andrea ^d   Peters, Malte ^e   Rose John, Stefan ^e   Della Rocca, Carlo ^f   Tripodi, Marco ^g   Lazzaro, Domenico ^a   Taub, Rebecca ^c   Savino, Rocco ^a   Ciliberto, Gennaro ^a  

^a IRBM   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^g SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

IL 6; Liver adenomas; Nodular hyperplasia; Soluble IL 6R

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN GP 130; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 6 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIVER ADENOMA; LIVER CELL; MOUSE; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ADENOMA; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAPTOGLOBINS; HYPERPLASIA; INTERLEUKIN-6; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER REGENERATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-6; SOLUBILITY; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0032190524     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.19.5588     Document Type: Article

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