The effect of lung cancer on cytokine expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate cytokine expression by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from stage I lung cancer patients and to confirm these expression patterns by exposing PBMCs to lung cancer cells in vitro. Five altered cytokines in stage I lung cancer patients (CCL3, IL8, IL1...

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Main Authors: David H Chang, John R Rutledge, Ankur A Patel, Barbara G Heerdt, Leonard H Augenlicht, Robert J Korst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3675097?pdf=render