Human IL-18 bioactivity in hematological malignancies with highly elevated serum IL-18 levels

Acta Haematologica

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 162-164

  Takubo, Takayuki ^a   Okura, Hisako ^a   Kumura, Takeo ^a   Nishiki, Saori ^a   Kinoshita, Yoshimitsu ^a   Koh, Ki Ryang ^a   Ohta, Kensuke ^a   Yamane, Takahisa ^a   Hino, Masayuki ^a   Kamitani, Tomio ^a   Tatsumi, Noriyuki ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; GLYCOPROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 18 BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN-18 BINDING PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD DISEASE; CELL LINE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SECRETION;

ADULT; AGED; CELL LINE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-18; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS;

EID: 0033643023     PISSN: 00015792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000041040     Document Type: Article

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