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SUBMITTER: Goswami R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3074408 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Goswami Ritobrata R Kaplan Mark H MH
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20110301 6
IL-9 was first described in the late 1980s as a member of a growing number of cytokines that had pleiotropic functions in the immune system. Although many biological functions have been attributed to IL-9, it remains an understudied cytokine. A resurgence of interest in IL-9 has been spurred by recent work demonstrating a role for IL-9 in regulating inflammatory immunity and defining the transcription factors that activate the Il9 gene in cells that most efficiently produce IL-9. In this review, ...[more]