Simultaneous disruption of interleukin (IL)-4 and IL-13 defines individual roles in T helper cell type 2-mediated responses

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 189, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1565-1572

  McKenzie, Grahame J ^a   Fallon, Padraic G ^b   Emson, Claire L ^a   Grencis, Richard K ^c   McKenzie, Andrew N J ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eosinophilia; Immunoglobulin E; Interleukin 13; Interleukin 4; T helper type 2 cells

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2B; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHILIA; GENE DISRUPTION; HELPER CELL; LUNG GRANULOMA; MOUSE; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS BRASILIENSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

ANIMALS; EOSINOPHILIA; GRANULOMA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-13; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-5; LUNG DISEASES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS; OVALBUMIN; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0033577811     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.189.10.1565     Document Type: Article

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