Corticosteroids enhance the capacity of macrophages to induce Th2 cytokine synthesis in CD4+ lymphocytes by inhibiting IL-12 production

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2231-2237

  DeKruyff, Rosemarie H ^a   Fang, Yu ^a   Umetsu, Dale T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOKINE; DEXAMETHASONE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HELPER CELL; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL ADHESION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; DEXAMETHASONE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INTERFERON INDUCERS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-12; INTERLEUKIN-4; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED DBA; SPLEEN; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0032031496     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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