In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.970506232647.24751A-100000 at gort.canisius.edu>,
vant at GORT.CANISIUS.EDU (Thomas J VandeVen) wrote:
* IL-9 has been shown to support the growth of some T-cell lines and
* bone-marrow derived mast cell progenitors. I have not heard of any work
* done on the function of IL-9 in vivo and I wondered whether anyone had
* any information about the effects of IL-9 on immune response or
* hematopoiesis.
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* Thomas Van de Ven
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