Neurotrophins: A link between airway inflammation and airway smooth muscle contractility in asthma?

International Archives of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 118, Issue 2-4, 1999, Pages 163-165

  Braun, Armin ^a   Lommatzsch, Marek ^a   Lewin, Gary R ^b   Virchow, Johann C ^c   Renz, Harald ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Dept of Lab Med and Pathobiochem ^*

Author keywords

Airway; Airway hyperresponsiveness; Allergy; Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Inflammation; Mouse; Nerve growth factor; Neuroimmunology; Neurotrophin; Th2 immune response

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR ANTIBODY; NEUROTROPHIN;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LUNG LAVAGE; MOUSE; NEUROIMMUNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY;

EID: 0032913739     PISSN: 10182438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000024056     Document Type: Conference Paper

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