Down-regulation of Th1 responses in human neonates

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-2

  Marodi L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2; STAT PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; B LYMPHOCYTE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOWN REGULATION; EDITORIAL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; MACROPHAGE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NEWBORN; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CYTOKINES; DOWN-REGULATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-12; MACROPHAGES; TH1 CELLS;

EID: 0036243021     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2002.01873.x     Document Type: Editorial

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