Use of cytokines in infection

Expert Opinion on Emerging Drugs

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 223-236

  Aoki, Naoko ^a   Xing, Zhou ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adjuvant; Cytokines; Gene therapy; Infectious disease; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

4 [(4 BROMOPHENYL)(ETHOXYIMINO)METHYL] 1' [(2,4 DIMETHYL 3 PYRIDINYL)CARBONYL] 4' METHYL 1,4' BIPIPERIDINE; AFELIMOMAB; ALBUMIN ALPHA INTERFERON; ALPHA INTERFERON; AMD 070; APLAVIROC; BAY 504798; BETA1A INTERFERON; BIOMED 510; CHEMOKINE; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; CYTOFAB; CYTOKINE; CYTOKINE ANTIBODY; ETANERCEPT; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA1B INTERFERON; INFLUENZA VACCINE; INFLUSOME VAC; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2; ISATORIBINE; JTE 607; LANIMOSTIM; LATORIBINE; MARAVIROC; MULTIKINE; PEG ALFACON 1; PEG INFERGEN; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2A; PRO 140; PROLEOKIN; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 2; RETICULOSE; RITICULOSE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VACCINE; VICRIVIROC; Z 100;

GENE THERAPY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INFLUENZA; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOSIS; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; VACCINATION; VERRUCA VULGARIS;

COLONY-STIMULATING FACTORS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CYTOKINES; DRUG THERAPY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERFERONS; INTERLEUKIN-12; MYCOSES; SEPSIS;

EID: 10344243471     PISSN: 14728214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14728214.9.2.223     Document Type: Review

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