Introduction to the Role of Cytokines in
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Oppenheim J.J., Feldmann M.
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The amino acid sequence of IL-6 was actually first reported as a so-called 26 ΠΊ Da protein by Content et al. in 1982. This product of fibroblasts was thought to have antiviral activity and was therefore mis-identified as IFN-B2. A protein termed Π cell differentiation factor (BCDF) or Π cell-stimula