Increased serum levels of interleukin-12 may be associated with Th1 differentiation in hemodialysis patients [1]

Nephron

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 503-504

  Ishizuka, Tsutomu ^a   Nitta, Kosaku ^a   Yokoyama, Takashi ^a   Hayashi, Tetsuo ^a   Futatsuyama, Kazuya ^a   Kimata, Naoki ^a   Miwa, Naoko ^a   Nishida, Eiichi ^a   Kawashima, Akira ^a   Akiba, Takashi ^a   Nihei, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5;

ADULT; CHRONIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-12; INTERLEUKIN-4; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; TH1 CELLS;

EID: 18344372180     PISSN: 00282766     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000054742     Document Type: Letter

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