Enhanced Production of RANTES, an Eosinophil Chemoattractant Factor, by Cytokine-Stimulated Epidermal Keratinocytes

International Archives of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 28-32

  Yamada, Hidekazu ^a   Matsukura, Masaharu ^a   Yudate, Tatsuo ^a   Chihara, Junichi ^b   Stingl, Georg ^c   Tezuka, Tadashi ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Eosinophil; Epidermal; IFN ; Keratinocytes; Rantes; TNF

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; EOSINOPHIL CHEMOTACTIC FACTOR; GAMMA INTERFERON; MESSENGER RNA; RANTES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CELL STIMULATION; CHEMOTAXIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KERATINOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS, EOSINOPHIL; CYTOKINES; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; KERATINOCYTES; RANTES; SKIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0030687609     PISSN: 10182438     EISSN: 14230097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000237713     Document Type: Article

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