Blockade of IL-18 receptor signaling delays the onset of autoimmune disease in MRL-Faslpr mice

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 173, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 5312-5318

  Kinoshita, Koji ^a   Yamagata, Toshiaki ^a   Nozaki, Yuji ^a   Sugiyama, Masafumi ^a   Ikoma, Shinya ^a   Funauchi, Masanori ^a   Kanamaru, Akihisa ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; FAS ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 18 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 18 RECEPTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; GLOMERULOPATHY; INBRED STRAIN; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MOUSE; NEPHRITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN DEFECT; T LYMPHOCYTE; WILD TYPE;

EID: 6344279914     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.8.5312     Document Type: Article

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