Interleukin-6: from basic science to medicine--40 years in immunology.

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Published in Annu Rev Immunol on January 01, 2005

Authors

Tadamitsu Kishimoto1

Author Affiliations

1: Graduate School of Frontier Bioscience, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. kishimot@imed3.med.osaka-u.ac.jp

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