Aimez-vous Brahms? A story capriccioso from the discovery of a cytokine family and its regulators

Nature Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 447-449

  Taniguchi, Tadatsugu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; BETA INTERFERON; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKINE; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 1; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 2; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 3; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 7; INTERLEUKIN 2; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT DNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; GENE SWITCHING; GENE TECHNOLOGY; IMMUNOREGULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY; ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE I;

EID: 65249151931     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni0509-447     Document Type: Article

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