Long-lived Th2 clones specific for seasonal and perennial allergens can be detected in blood and skin by their TCR-hypervariable regions

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 2022-2027

  Bohle, Barbara ^a   Schwihla, Herwig ^b   Hu, Huai Zhong ^c   Friedl Hajek, Roswitha ^a   Sowka, Slawomir ^a   Ferreira, Fátima ^d   Breiteneder, Heimo ^a   Bruijnzeel Koomen, Carla A F M ^c   De Weger, Roel A ^c   Mudde, Geert C ^e   Ebner, Christof ^a   Van Reijsen, Frank C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^e NOVARTIS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; INTERLEUKIN 4; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ALLERGENICITY; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; MEMORY CELL; PERENNIAL RHINITIS; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ADULT; ALLERGENS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL SURVIVAL; CLONE CELLS; EPITOPES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SKIN; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0032519689     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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