Culture conditions for the detection of allergen-specific T-cell reactivity in cord blood: Influence of cell number

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 4-11

  Kopp, Matthias V ^a,b   Pichler, Josefa ^a   Halmerbauer, Gerhard ^a   Kuehr, Joachim ^b   Frischer, Thomas ^a   Urbanek, Radvan ^a   Szépfalusi, Zsolt ^a  

^a ST ANNA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

7 cell proliferation; Allergen; Atopy; Cord blood

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; BETA LACTOGLOBULIN; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2; OVALBUMIN; TRITIUM;

ALLERGY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GRASS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; INGESTION; INHALATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEWBORN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ALLERGENS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, IMMUNOLOGIC; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; INFANT, NEWBORN; LACTOGLOBULINS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 0034067686     PISSN: 09056157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3038.2000.00053.x     Document Type: Article

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