A nuclear factor for IL-6 expression (NF-IL6) is a member of a C/EBP family.

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Published in EMBO J on June 01, 1990

Authors

S Akira1, H Isshiki, T Sugita, O Tanabe, S Kinoshita, Y Nishio, T Nakajima, T Hirano, T Kishimoto

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1: Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Osaka University, Japan.

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