Serum levels of interleukin-18 are increased in patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and cutaneous natural killer-cell lymphoma [6]

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 674-676

  Amo, Y ^a   Ohta, Y ^a   Hamada, Y ^a   Katsuoka, K ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 5;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD LEVEL; CELL CULTURE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOFLUOROMETRY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; KUPFFER CELL; LETTER; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; T CELL LYMPHOMA; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-18; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0035788687     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.2001.04420.x     Document Type: Letter

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