Glucocorticoids promote a Th2 cytokine response by CD4+ T cells in vitro

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 156, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2406-2412

  Ramírez, Francisco ^a   Fowell, Deborah J ^a,b   Puklavec, Michael ^a   Simmonds, Steve ^a   Mason, Don ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; DEXAMETHASONE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; IMMUNOREGULATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CONCANAVALIN A; CYTOKINES; DEXAMETHASONE; DNA PRIMERS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-13; INTERLEUKIN-4; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0029925751     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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