Mice lacking the IFN-γ receptor have an impaired ability to resolve a lung eosinophilic inflammatory response associated with a prolonged capacity of T cells to exhibit a Th2 cytokine profile

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 156, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2680-2685

  Coyle, Anthony J ^a   Tsuyuki, Shogo ^b   Bertrand, Claude ^a   Huang, Sui ^c   Aguet, Michel ^c   Alkan, Sefik S ^a   Anderson, Gary P ^a  

^a CIBA GEIGY LTD   (Switzerland)

^b KISSEI PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERFERON RECEPTOR; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; C57BL MOUSE; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; TH2 CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; CYTOKINES; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; INTERFERON TYPE II; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, INTERFERON; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0030584820     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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