Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, 1G Royal Pde, Parkville, Vic 3052, Australia.
Cytokine Growth Factor Rev. 2013 Jun;24(3):179-87. doi: 10.1016/j.cytogfr.2013.03.004. Epub 2013 Mar 30.
This review focuses on contributions to cytokine biology made by Australians in Australia. It is clearly biased by my own experiences and selective recollections especially related to the colony-stimulating factors in which Australian involvement has been pre-eminent from discovery to clinical use. Nevertheless Australian scientists have also made profound contributions to other areas of cytokine and growth factor biology (including interferons, inflammatory cytokines, chemokines and epidermal, insulin-like and vascular endothelial growth factors) that are briefly described in this review as well as other chapters in this volume.
这篇综述主要关注澳大利亚人在澳大利亚对细胞因子生物学的贡献。它明显带有我个人的经历和选择性回忆的偏见,尤其是与集落刺激因子相关的部分,澳大利亚在该领域的参与从发现到临床应用一直处于领先地位。然而,澳大利亚科学家也对细胞因子和生长因子生物学的其他领域(包括干扰素、炎症细胞因子、趋化因子和表皮、胰岛素样和血管内皮生长因子)做出了深刻的贡献,这些内容在本综述以及本卷的其他章节中都有简要描述。