The role of eosinophils in asthma: Sarastro or the Queen of the Night?

International Archives of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 290-296

  Matsumoto, Kenji ^a   Saito, Hirohisa ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eosinophils; Major basic protein; Mast cells; Oligonucleotide probe arrays; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

BASIC PROTEIN; CYTOTOXIC FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 5 ANTIBODY; LEUKOTRIENE;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; CELL FUNCTION; CYTOTOXIC LYMPHOCYTE; EFFECTOR CELL; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIA; GENOME; HUMAN; MAST CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; EOSINOPHILS; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASES;

EID: 0035742419     PISSN: 10182438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000053829     Document Type: Review

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