Cytokines and acute neurodegeneration

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 734-744

  Allan, Stuart M ^a   Rothwell, Nancy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 1;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; NERVE DEGENERATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; BRAIN; CYTOKINES; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE DEGENERATION; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR, TYPE I;

EID: 0035487313     PISSN: 14710048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35094583     Document Type: Review

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