Upregulation of interleukin 6 and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor receptors by transcription factor CCAAT enhancer binding protein α (C/EBPα) is critical for granulopoiesis

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 188, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1173-1184

  Zhang, Pu ^a   Iwama, Atsushi ^a   Datta, Milton W ^a   Darlington, Gretchen J ^b   Link, Daniel C ^c   Tenen, Daniel G ^a,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARVARD INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CCAAT enhancer binding protein; Colony forming unit; Hematopoiesis; Knockout mice; Myelopoiesis

Indexed keywords

GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE SEQUENCE; GRANULOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIESIS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; MYELOPOIESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG SYNERGISM; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FETUS; GRANULOCYTES; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; LIVER; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-6; RNA, MESSENGER; SOLUBILITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0032555932     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.188.6.1173     Document Type: Article

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