Interleukin-18 in combination with IL-2 enhances natural killer cell activity without inducing large amounts of IFN-γ in vivo

Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 217-224

  Arai, Norie ^a   Akamatsu, Sachiko ^a   Arai, Shigeyuki ^a   Toshimori, Yasuhiro ^a   Hanaya, Toshiharu ^a   Tanimoto, Tadao ^a   Ikeda, Masao ^a   Tomura, Michio ^b   Fujiwara, Hiromi ^b   Kurimoto, Masashi ^a  

^a HAYASHIBARA BIOCHEMICAL LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 18; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER IMMUNOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LUNG METASTASIS; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DRUG SYNERGISM; FEMALE; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-12; INTERLEUKIN-18; INTERLEUKIN-2; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LIVER; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPLEEN; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0033994272     PISSN: 10799907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/107999000312630     Document Type: Article

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