Interleukin-6 functions as an autocrine
Interleukin-6 functions as an autocrine growth factor in human bladder carcinoma cell lines in vitro
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Masato Okamoto; Kazunori Hattori; Ryoichi Oyasu
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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French
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Interleukin (IL)-6 is reported to function as a growth factor for renal and prostatic carcinomas. We conducted the present study to define the role of IL-6 in the growth of normal and neoplastic urothelial cells. Human bladder carcinoma cell lines (253J, RT4 and T24) and primary cultured human uroth