Allergen-specific Th1 cells fail to counterbalance Th2 cell-induced airway hyperreactivity but cause severe airway inflammation

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 175-183

  Hansen, Gesine ^a   Berry, Gerald ^b   DeKruyff, Rosemarie H ^a   Umetsu, Dale T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; OVALBUMIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELPER CELL; INFLAMMATION; LUNG DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCID MOUSE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0032945548     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI5155     Document Type: Article

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