TH2-polarized immunological memory to inhalant allergens in atopics is established during infancy and early childhood

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1261-1269

  Yabuhara, A ^a   Macaubas, C ^a   Prescott, S L ^a   Venaille, T J ^a   Holt, B J ^a   Habre, W ^a   Sly, P D ^a   Holt, P G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allergy; Immunotherapy; Oral tolerance; TH1 TH2; Tolerance suppression

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CYTOKINE; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; OVALBUMIN;

ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ATOPY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EGG; GENETICS; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MITE; SKIN TEST; TH2 CELL;

AGE FACTORS; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; EGGS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MITES; SKIN TESTS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0030608663     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.1997.tb01170.x     Document Type: Article

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