Interleukin-18: Biological properties and role in disease pathogenesis

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 281, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 138-153

  Kaplanski, Gilles ^a,b  

^a HÔPITAL DE LA CONCEPTION   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

hemophagocytic syndromes; inflammatory diseases; interferon ; interleukin 1; interleukin 18; interleukin 18 binding protein

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 18 BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 18 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 37; GAMMA INTERFERON; IL37 PROTEIN, HUMAN; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN-18 BINDING PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; ASTHMA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMIC JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS; ANIMAL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, JUVENILE; HUMANS; INFECTION; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-18; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-18; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 85037980848     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imr.12616     Document Type: Review

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