Mucosal IL-7-mediated immune responses in chronic colitis-IL-7 transgenic mouse model

Immunologic Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 251-259

  Watanabe, Mamoru ^a   Ueno, Yoshitaka ^b   Yamazaki, Motomi ^b   Hibi, Toshifumi ^a,b  

^a Keio Caner Center   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colitis; IL 7; Mucosal immunity; Transgenic mouse; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 7;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLITIS; COLON MUCOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 0033507076     PISSN: 0257277X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02790408     Document Type: Review

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