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Fever and immunoregulation: hyperthermia, interleukins 1 and 2, and T-cell proliferation.

The role of fever in host defense, if indeed it has one, is poorly understood. Fever in response to exogenous agents is mediated by a host macrophage product called endogenous pyrogen (EP). Recently it has been shown that EP is probably identical to interleukin 1 (IL1), an immunostimulatory macropha...

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Autores principales: Duff, G. W., Durum, S. K.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 1982
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2596539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6985107