Interleukin-21: A multifunctional regulator of immunity to infections

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 12, Issue 14-15, 2010, Pages 1111-1119

  Yi, John S ^a   Cox, Maureen A ^a   Zajac, Allan J ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunity; Infection; Interleukin 21

Indexed keywords

GRANULYSIN; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 21 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; JANUS KINASE 3; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; STAT1 PROTEIN; STAT5 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MACROPHAGE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SHORT SURVEY; T LYMPHOCYTE; UPREGULATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; HELMINTHIASIS; INTERLEUKINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 78649881447     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2010.08.008     Document Type: Short Survey

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