Open AccessRetraction: A lymphokine that activates the cytolytic program of both cytotoxic T lymphocyte and natural killer clones.
Author(s) -
Ellis L. Reinherz
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
the journal of experimental medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 8.483
H-Index - 448
eISSN - 1540-9538
pISSN - 0022-1007
DOI - 10.1084/jem.165.1.275
Subject(s) - cytotoxic t cell , lymphokine , cytolysis , immunology , lymphokine activated killer cell , natural killer cell , biology , lymphocyte , t lymphocyte , cytotoxicity , natural killer t cell , immune system , interleukin 21 , t cell , in vitro , genetics
The Editors of Thejournal ofExperimental Medicine have been notified by Dr . Ellis L . Reinherz of The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston, MA) that he and the other authors ofthe article published inJune 1986 (163:1583-1588) and entitled "A lymphokine that activates the cytolytic program of both cytotoxic T lymphocyte and natural killer clones" wish to retract this information . In a letter dated November 14, 1986 and signed by Dr. Reinherz on behalf of Claudio Milanese, Robert F . Siliciano, Reinhold E . Schmidt, Jerome Ritz, Neil E . Richardson, and Ellis L . Reinherz of the Laboratory of Immunobiology, Division of Tumor Immunology, they state that the "biological data of the paper is not reproducible and incorrect [sic] . . . there is no 12 kD lymphokine with the functional attributes described in that publication ." They extend their apologies to the scientific community .
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