Long-range transcriptional regulation of cytokine gene expression

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 345-352

  Agarwal, Suneet ^a   Rao, Anjana ^a  

^a CENTER FOR BLOOD RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 3; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; MILODISTIM;

CHROMATIN; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0345019804     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0952-7915(98)80174-X     Document Type: Article

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