Interleukin-6 cytokine: A multifunctional glycoprotein for cancer

Immunome Research

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Zarogoulidis, Paul ^a,b   Yarmus, Lonny ^c   Darwiche, Kaid ^b   Walter, Robert ^b,d   Huang, Haidong ^e   Li, Zhigang ^f   Zaric, Bojan ^g   Tsakiridis, Kosmas ^h   Zarogoulidis, Konstantinos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^e II Military University Hospital   (China)

^f SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^h Cardiothoracic Surgery Department 'Saint Luke' Private Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Cancer; Cytokine; Interleukin 6; JAK; SNAIL; STAT

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

BONE CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; DRUG TARGETING; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

EID: 84896753600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17457580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4172/1745-7580.1000062     Document Type: Review

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