Renal cells express a functional interleukin-15 receptor

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 516-523

  Tejman Yarden, Noa ^a   Zlotnik, Moshe ^a   Lewis, Eli ^a   Etzion, Ohad ^a   Chaimovitz, Cidio ^a   Douvdevani, Amos ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Interleukin 15; Interleukin 15 receptor; Jak; STAT; Tubular epithelial cells

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 15 RECEPTOR; JANUS KINASE; JANUS KINASE 1; JANUS KINASE 3; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; STAT PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; STAT5 PROTEIN; TYROSINE;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA ISOLATION; EXON; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY CELL; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY MEDULLA; KIDNEY TUBULE CELL; LIGAND BINDING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-15; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY MEDULLA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-15; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 15044345095     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh616     Document Type: Article

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