Identification and Molecular Cloning of Functional Chicken IL-12

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 172, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 4371-4380

  Degen, Winfried G J ^a   Van Daal, Nancy ^a   Van Zuilekom, Hanneke I ^a   Burnside, Joan ^b   Schijns, Virgil E J C ^a  

^a INTERVET INTERNATIONAL BV   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; HYBRID PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 12; MONOMER; PROTEIN P35; PROTEIN P40; PROTEIN P70; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CAT; CATTLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; CELL TYPE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIMERIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HORSE; LYMPHOID CELL; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEEP; SPLEEN CELL; VERTEBRATE; WOODCHUCK;

EID: 1642351060     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.7.4371     Document Type: Article

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