Glucocorticoids Inhibit the Cytokine-Induced Proliferation of Mast Cells, the High Affinity IgE Receptor-Mediated Expression of TNF-α, and the IL-10-Induced Expression of Chymases

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 4373-4380

  Eklund, Kari K ^a,b,c   Humphries, Donald E ^a,b   Xia, Zhinan ^a,b   Ghildyal, Namit ^a,b   Friend, Daniel S ^a,b   Gross, Vera ^b   Stevens, Richard L ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHYMASE; CHYMASE 2; CMA2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CYTOKINE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; SERINE PROTEINASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL GRANULE; CYTOLOGY; DEGRANULATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MAST CELL; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL DEGRANULATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CHYMASES; CYTOKINES; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; DEXAMETHASONE; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-6; MAST CELLS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RECEPTORS, IGE; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0031137913     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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