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Expression of interleukin‐18 and its monokine‐directed function in rheumatoid arthritis
1 Mar 2001
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OBJECTIVES: To investigate the expression of and monokine induction by interleukin 18 (IL-18; also called interferon-gamma inducing factor, IGIF), in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and cultured synoviocytes from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. METHODS: We carried out IL-18 Western blotting and semi-quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) of cytokines in PBMC [IL-18,...
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