Interferon Therapy in Cancer: From Imaginon to Interferon1
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Isaacs and Lindemann first characterized UN in England in 1957; they coined the term to signify a protein elaborated by virally infected cells that functions to prevent their infection by a second virus (1). However, difficulties with chemical isolation and characterization led to great skepticism about the existence of the protein; indeed "... the scientific community dubbed his discovery 'imaginon'" (2).
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تاریخ انتشار 2006