Cytokines in inflammatory bowel disease

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 329-342

  Neurath, Markus F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 12; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; COLON CANCER; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE COURSE; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; LYMPHOID CELL; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; STROMA CELL; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL; TH2 CELL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES;

EID: 84899639879     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri3661     Document Type: Review

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