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Treatment of T Cell-Dependent Experimental Colitis in SCID Mice by Local Administration of an Adenovirus Expressing IL-18 Antisense mRNA
1 Jan 2002
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies have shown that IL-18, a pleiotropic cytokine that augments IFN-gamma production, is produced by intestinal epithelial cells and lamina propria cells from patients with Crohn's disease. In this study, we show that IL-18 is strongly expressed by intestinal epithelial cells in a murine model of Crohn's disease induced by transfer of CD62L+ CD4+ T cells into SCID mice. To specifically down-regulate...
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