The yin and yang of Activin A

Blood

Volumn 117, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 5013-5015

  Sozzani, Silvano ^a,b   Musso, Tiziana ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; CD40 LIGAND; FOLLISTATIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; GELATINASE A; GLUCOCORTICOID; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 23; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1BETA; NITRIC OXIDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOTOXICITY; DENDRITIC CELL; ENTERITIS; EX VIVO STUDY; FOAM CELL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; IMMUNOREGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; INJURY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LANGERHANS CELL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGE; MAST CELL; MONOCYTE; MYELOID DENDRITIC CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEPTICEMIA; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

EID: 79955977357     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2011-03-342691     Document Type: Note

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