Interleukin-27 Signaling Promotes Immunity against Endogenously Arising Murine Tumors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Natividad, Karlo D T ^a   Junankar, Simon R ^a   Redzwan, Norhanani Mohd ^a   Nair, Radhika ^a   Wirasinha, Rushika C ^a   King, Cecile ^a,b   Brink, Robert ^a,b   Swarbrick, Alexander ^a,b   Batten, Marcel ^a,b  

^a GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 27;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FIBROSARCOMA; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR IMMUNITY;

EID: 84874846166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057469     Document Type: Article

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