| Literature DB >> 12946105 |
Tetsushi Kaneko1, Masahiro Itoh, Yoichi Nakamura, Akira Iimura, Shogo Hayashi, Kodo Takahashi, Franca Stivala, Klaus Bendtzen, Ferdinando Nicoletti.
Abstract
We studied the effects of exogenously administered recombinant murine interleukin (IL)-10 on the development of experimental autoimmune orchitis (EAO) in C3H/He mice. IL-10 significantly augments histological signs of EAO when administered for 6 consecutive days from days 15 to 20 after primary immunisations with testicular germ cells. These data demonstrate that IL-10, in addition to its well-known antiinflammatory property, also has proinflammatory functions capable of up-regulating testicular immunoinflammatory processes in vivo.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12946105 DOI: 10.1016/s1043-4666(03)00103-0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cytokine ISSN: 1043-4666 Impact factor: 3.861