Article
Analysis of the heterogeneity of the biological responses to native and mutant human interleukin-6.
Journal of leukocyte biology - 1 Oct 1992
Krakauer T, Snouwaert J N, Fowlkes D M, Krakauer H
Abstract excerpt
The structure-function relationships of the biological activities of mutant varieties of the pleiotropic cytokine interleukin-6 (human) were measured by three assays: induction of immunoglobulin M (IgM) secretion from an Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line and induction of fibrinogen secretion from either a human hepatoma cell line or a rat hepatoma cell line. The biological effects of the cytokine...
Topics
- Animals
- B-Lymphocytes
- Cell Transformation, Viral
- Herpesvirus 4, Human
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin M
- Interleukin-6
- Kinetics
- Liver
- Liver Neoplasms, Experimental
- Mutation
