Marsupial cytokines: Structure, function and evolution

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 473-484

  Harrison, Gavan A ^a   Wedlock, D Neil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AGRESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Evolution; Interferon; Interleukin 1; Interleukin 10; Lymphotoxin; Macropus eugenii; Marsupial; Trichosurus vulpecula; Tumour necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LYMPHOTOXIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

CYTOKINE RELEASE; EVOLUTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOBIOLOGY; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ALOPIAS; EUTHERIA; MACROPUS EUGENII; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 0034237115     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-305X(00)00010-0     Document Type: Article

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