“…The IL-2R appears to be expressed not only on hematopoietic cells but also on a wide variety of non-hematopoietic cells, including normal and malignant cells of the epithelial origin (Saneto et al, 1986;Weidmann et al, 1992;Plaisance et al, 1992Plaisance et al, , 1993Artz et al, 1992;Alileche et al, 1993;Ciacci et al, 1993;Yasumura et al, 1994;Lin et al, 1995;McMillan et al, 1995). Functions of the IL-2R chains in nonhematopoietic cells are not fully understood.…”