Anti-IL-4 treatment prevents dermal collagen deposition in the tight-skin mouse model of scleroderma

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2619-2629

  Ong, Christopher ^a   Wong, Connie ^a   Roberts, Clive R ^a   Teh, Hung Sia ^a   Jirik, Frank R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collagen; IL 4; Immune deviation; Scleroderma; Tsk

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 4 ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 4 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERODERMA; SKIN FIBROBLAST; SKIN FIBROSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; COLLAGEN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INTERLEUKIN-4; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SKIN; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0031712891     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199809)28:09<2619::AID-IMMU2619>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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