Mitogenic effect of interleukin-2 on unstimulated human T cells: an editorial review.

doi:10.1002/jcla.1860040213

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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

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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...

Topics

Antigen-Presenting Cells
Humans
In Vitro Techniques
Interleukin-2
Lymphocyte Activation
Mitogens
Models, Biological
Phenotype
T-Lymphocytes

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