Human eotaxin is a specific chemoattractant for eosinophil cells and provides a new mechanism to explain tissue eosinophilia

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 449-456

  Garcia Zepeda, Eduardo A ^a   Rothenberg, Marc E ^b   Ownbey, Robert T ^a   Celestin, Jocelyn ^c   Leder, Philip ^b   Luster, Andrew D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOATTRACTANT; EOTAXIN; INTERLEUKIN 3;

ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DIVERTICULITIS; EARLY RESPONSE GENE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENTERITIS; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHEMOKINES, CC; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; CYTOKINES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EOSINOPHILIA; EOSINOPHILS; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-3; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

RODENTIA;

EID: 0029944290     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0496-449     Document Type: Article

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