Abrogation of bronchial eosinophilic inflammation and airway hyperreactivity in signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT)6-deficient mice

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 187, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1537-1542

  Akimoto, Toshihiko ^a   Numata, Fumio ^a   Tamura, Misato ^a   Takata, Yoshimi ^a   Higashida, Noriko ^a   Takashi, Tohru ^a   Takeda, Kiyoshi ^b   Akira, Shizuo ^b  

^a DAIICHI SANKYO CO   (Japan)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; OVALBUMIN; STAT6 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; LUNG LAVAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EOSINOPHILS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OVALBUMIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0032482159     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.187.9.1537     Document Type: Article

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