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Mitogenic effect of interleukin-2 on unstimulated human T cells: an editorial review.
Journal of clinical laboratory analysis - 1 Jan 1990
Mookerjee B K, Pauly J L
Abstract excerpt
The most salient feature of the lymphokine interleukin-2 (IL-2), a hormone-like protein, is its ability to sustain the proliferation of immunocompetent T cells. Results of initial studies characterizing IL-2 in vitro led investigators to conclude that IL-2 had no known effects on lymphocytes that had not been previously activated by exposure to a mitogen or antigen. Several groups postulated that T cell growth...
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