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[Cytokine release in sarcoid alveolitis]
J Müller-Quernheim1, S Pfeifer, R Ferlinz
1III. Medizinische Klinik, Universität Mainz, Abteilung Innere Medizin.
Immunitat Und Infektion
|June 1, 1990
Abstract:
In sarcoidosis a compartmentalized activation of the immune system exists which yields clinical parameters of disease activity. By means of the spontaneous interleukin-1 and tumor-necrosis-factor-alpha release the same phenomenon could be demonstrated for the macrophage/monocyte system.