IL-17A in Human Respiratory Diseases: Innate or Adaptive Immunity? Clinical Implications

Since the discovery of IL-17 in 1995 as a T-cell cytokine, inducing IL-6 and IL-8 production by fibroblasts, and the report of a separate T-cell lineage producing IL-17(A), called Th17 cells, in 2005, the role of IL-17 has been studied in several inflammatory diseases. By inducing IL-8 production an...

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Main Authors: Dominique M. A. Bullens, Ann Decraene, Sven Seys, Lieven J. Dupont
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-01-01
Series:Clinical and Developmental Immunology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/840315
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