1. Making the paper: Yan Zheng.
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PSORIASIS , *T cell receptors , *LYMPHOCYTES , *SKIN diseases , *PROGNOSIS - Abstract
The article analyzes the missing link between T lymphocytes and psoriasis. The observations of Immunologist Yan Zheng and his colleagues at the company Genentech in San Francisco, California are discussed in detail. An overview of the cause for the white cell infiltration into the skin and the role of IL-22 in causing the disease of psoriasis, through experimentation on mice, is presented. The article also presents the observations of Wenjun Ouyang on TH 17 and T22 to find the missing link.
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- 2007
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