High levels of mRNA encoding IL-4 in unstimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells from tuberculosis patients revealed by quantitative nested reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction; correlations with serum IgE levels

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 106-109

  Seah, G T ^a   Rook, G A W ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD30 ANTIGEN; CORTISONE; GAMMA INTERFERON; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; MESSENGER RNA; TUBERCULIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MONONUCLEAR CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TH2 CELL; TUBERCULOSIS;

HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTERLEUKIN-4; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TH2 CELLS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0035109725     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/003655401750065472     Document Type: Article

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