Programming for responsiveness to environmental antigens that trigger allergic respiratory disease in adulthood is initiated during the perinatal period

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 106, Issue SUPPL. 3, 1998, Pages 795-800

  Holt, Patrick G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allergy; Asthma; Cytokines; Environmental allergens; T cells

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; MEMORY CELL; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0031856780     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.98106795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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