Cord blood mononuclear cell cytokine responses in relation to maternal house dust mite allergen exposure

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 355-360

  Marks, G B ^a,d   Zhou, J ^a   Yang, H S ^b   Joshi, P A ^a   Bishop, G A ^c   Britton, W J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b HEBEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CENTENARY INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d WOOLCOCK INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allergen; Atopy; Cord blood; Cytokines; House dust mite; Thl and Th2

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; MESSENGER RNA; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; BED; CELL CULTURE; CELL STIMULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPERNATANT; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DERMATOPHAGOIDES; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYTOKINES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, IMMUNOLOGIC; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MITES; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STATISTICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0036228337     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2222.2002.01292.x     Document Type: Article

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