Involvement of interleukin-18 (IL-18) in mixed lymphocyte reactions (MLR)

Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1053-1057

  Kohka, Hideo ^a,c   Iwagaki, Hiromi ^a   Yoshino, Tadashi ^a   Kobashi, Kenta ^a   Urushihara, Naoto ^a   Yagi, Takahito ^a   Tanimoto, Tadao ^b   Kurimoto, Masashi ^b   Akagi, Tadaatsu ^a   Tanaka, Noriaki ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HAYASHIBARA BIOCHEMICAL LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; CYTOKINE ANTIBODY; GAMMA INTERFERON; HLA ANTIGEN; INTERFERON ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ALLOIMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE REACTION; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERNATANT;

CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-12; INTERLEUKIN-18; INTERLEUKIN-6; KINETICS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE TEST, MIXED;

EID: 0032854460     PISSN: 10799907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/107999099313280     Document Type: Article

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