Role of nerve growth factor in a mouse model of allergic airway inflammation and asthma

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3240-3251

  Braun, Armin ^a   Appel, Elena ^b   Baruch, Rina ^b   Herz, Udo ^a   Botchkarev, Vladimir ^a   Paus, Ralf ^a   Brodie, Chaya ^b   Renz, Harald ^a,c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airway hyperreactivity; Allergy; Mouse; Neurotrophin; Th2 immune response

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELPER CELL; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; INFLAMMATION; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; MACROPHAGE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; OVALBUMIN; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0031684386     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199810)28:10<3240::AID-IMMU3240>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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