The effect of bacillus Calmette-Guérin immunization depends on the genetic predisposition to Th2-type responsiveness

American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 244-249

  Hylkema, Machteld N ^a   Timens, Wim ^a   Luinge, Marjan ^a   Van der Werf, Nienke ^a   Hoekstra, Maarten O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; RODENTIA;

BCG VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; OVALBUMIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; EOSINOPHIL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; MACROPHAGE; MALE; METABOLISM; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; BCG VACCINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EOSINOPHILS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INFLAMMATION; INTERFERON TYPE II; LUNG; MACROPHAGES; MALE; OVALBUMIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0035984580     PISSN: 10441549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1165/ajrcmb.27.2.4735     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. A community-based study of the epidemiology of asthma. Incidence rates, 1964-1983
2. Asthma: An epidemic in the absence of infection?
3. The rising trends in asthma and allergic disease
4. Health and the environment in the 1990s
5. Prevalence of asthma and atopy in two areas of West and East Germany
6. Exposure to endotoxin or other bacterial components might protect against the development of atopy
7. Genetic control of natural resistance to Mycobacterium bovis (BCG) in mice
8. Purified protein derivative of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and excretory- secretory antigen(s) of Toxocara canis expand in vitro human T cells with stable and opposite (type 1 T helper or type 2 T helper) profile of cytokine production
9. Measles and atopy in Guinea-Bissau
10. Single expression of CD45RC and RT6 in correlation with T-helper 1 and T-helper 2 cytokine patterns in the rat
11. Siblings, day-care attendance, and the risk of asthma and wheezing during childhood
12. The influence of birth order on the expression of atopy in families: A gene-environment interaction?
13. Frequency of infections and risk of asthma, atopy and airway hyperresponsiveness in children
14. Airway inflammation, bronchial reactivity and asthma
15. Allergens and asthma
16. T-lymphocytes, allergy and asthma
17. Association of a promoter polymorphism of the CD14 gene and atopy
18. The genetics of atopy and airway hyperresponsiveness
19. The genetics of asthma
20. The inverse association between tuberculin responses and atopic disorder
21. Cytokine expression in the presence or absence of late airway responses after antigen challenge of sensitized rats
22. Functionally distinct T cells in three compartments of the respiratory tract after influenza virus infection
23. Kinetics and quantitation of eosinophil and neutrophil recruitment to allergic lung inflammation in a brown Norway rat model
24. BCG infection during pre-sensitization or even post-sensitization inhibits airway sensitivity in an animal model of allergic asthma
25. Ovalbumin (OVA) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli cooperatively polarize anti-OVA T-helper (Th) cells toward a Th1-dominant phenotype and ameliorate murine tracheal eosinophilia
26. Regulation of T-helper type 2 cell and airway eosinophilia by transmucosal coadministration of antigen and oligodeoxynucleotides containing CpG motifs
27. Regulation of murine airway eosinophilia and Th2 cells by antigen-conjugated CpG oligodeoxynucleotides as a novel antigen-specific immunomodulator
28. Total serum IgE concentration of children from air-polluted regions
29. Infection of mice with Mycobacterium bovis-Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) suppresses allergen-induced airway eosinophilia
30. BCG infection suppresses allergic sensitization and development of increased airway reactivity in an animal model
31. Adoptively transferred late allergic airway responses are associated with Th2-type cytokines in the rat