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Interleukin-9

"Interleukin-9" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A multifunctional cytokine secreted by primarily by activated TH2 CELLS that may play a role as a regulator of allergic INFLAMMATION. It has been shown to enhance the growth and CELL DIFFERENTIATION of MAST CELLS, and can act on a variety of other immune cells.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Interleukin-9" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Interleukin-9" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 36 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2009
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.