Characterization of the interleukin-4 receptor complex in human corneal fibroblasts

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 183-188

  Fukuda, K ^a   Fujitsu, Y ^a   Kumagai, N ^a   Nishida, T ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOTAXIN; INTERLEUKIN 13 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 4 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; STAT6 PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CORNEA CELL; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; FIBROBLAST; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; AGED; CELLS, CULTURED; CHEMOKINES, CC; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS, EOSINOPHIL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORNEA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-4; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-4; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STAT6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TYROSINE;

EID: 0036139017     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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