IL-9 pathway in asthma: New therapeutic targets for allergic inflammatory disorders

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 103, Issue 5 SUPPL., 1999, Pages

  Levitt, Roy Clifford ^a   McLane, Michael R ^a   MacDonald, Dorothy ^a   Ferrante, Veronica ^a   Weiss, Christine ^a   Zhou, Tingyi ^a   Holroyd, Kenneth James ^a   Nicolaides, Nicholas C ^a  

^a Genaera Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Allergy; Asthma; Eosinophils; IgE; IL 9; Mouse models

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 9;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN-9; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-5;

EID: 0033024432     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-6749(99)70165-X     Document Type: Article

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