Humoral and cell-mediated autoimmunity in allergy to Aspergillus fumigatus

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 265-270

  Crameri, Reto ^a   Faith, Alexander ^a   Hemmann, Stefanie ^a   Jaussi, Rolf ^b   Ismail, Chaim ^c   Menz, Günter ^c   Blaser, Kurt ^a  

^a SWISS INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND ASTHMA RESEARCH SIAF   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c Hochgebirgsklinik ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ALLERGENICITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AUTOIMMUNITY; DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SKIN TESTS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 0030055186     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.184.1.265     Document Type: Article

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