Notes générales
Mouse anti Human interleukin-7 antibody, clone 2D8-24-25, recognizes interleukin-7 (IL-7) a cytokine that plays roles in the early development of B and T cells. It is also required by mature T cells for survival, proliferation and many effector functions during infection and tumor infiltration (Sheikh & Abraham 2019). IL-7 elicits its biological functions through IL-7 receptor a. Upon ligand binding to IL-7 receptor a, the JAK and STAT signaling pathways are activated to subsequently activate downstream signaling pathways to initiate target gene transcription (Kittipatarin & Khaled 2007, Nguyen et al. 2017). IL-7 is mainly produced by stromal cells in the bone marrow and thymus under steady states. However, IL-7 is also present at low levels in the small intestine, lungs, liver and skin where it can modulate T cell responses (Sheikh & Abraham 2019).