Targeted disruption of the NF-IL6 gene discloses its essential role in bacteria killing and tumor cytotoxicity by macrophages

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Cell

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Serum granulocyte colony-stimulating factor levels in healthy volunteers and patients with various disorders as estimated by enzyme immunoassay

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Blood

Single-institute comparative analysis of unrelated bone marrow transplantation and cord blood transplantation for adult patients with hematologic malignancies

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Blood

Serum granulocyte colony-stimulating factor levels in healthy volunteers and patients with various disorders as estimated by enzyme immunoassay

Kiyoshi Watari, S Asano, Naoki Shirafuji, +4

Blood

Lack of tactile pain (allodynia) in lipocalin-type prostaglandin D synthase-deficient mice

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Induction of neutrophilic granulocytosis in mice by administration of purified human native granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)

Mayuko Tamura, Kunihiro Hattori, H Nomura, +8

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

InflammationAutoimmune DiseaseGranulocyteMedicineImmunology +8

A new bioassay for human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (hG-CSF) using murine myeloblastic NFS-60 cells as targets and estimation of its levels in sera from normal healthy persons and patients with infectious and hematological disorders.

Naoki Shirafuji, S Asano, Satoru Matsuda, +3

PubMed

Impaired selectin-ligand biosynthesis and reduced inflammatory responses in β-1,4-galactosyltransferase-I–deficient mice

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Blood

Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor stimulates human mature neutrophilic granulocytes to produce interferon-alpha

Naoki Shirafuji, Satoru Matsuda, H Ogura, +6

Blood

A clinical comparison of unrelated cord blood transplantation and unrelated bone marrow transplantation for adult patients with acute leukaemia in complete remission

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British Journal of Haematology