The serum factor from patients with ulcerative colitis that induces T cell proliferation in the mouse thymus is interleukin-7

Journal of Clinical Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 282-292

  Watanabe, Mamoru ^a,d   Watanabe, Noriaki ^b   Iwao, Yasushi ^b   Ogata, Haruhiko ^b   Kanai, Takanori ^b   Ueno, Yoshitaka ^b   Tsuchiya, Masaharu ^b   Ishii, Hiromasa ^b   Aiso, Sadakazu ^b   Habu, Sonoko ^c   Hibi, Toshifumi ^a,b  

^a Keio Caner Center   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interleukin 7; T cell; Thymus; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 7;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; EMBRYO CULTURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREGULATION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERUM FACTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THYMOCYTE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIVISION; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-7; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 8544219681     PISSN: 02719142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1027322631036     Document Type: Article

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