Direct effects of interleukin-13 on epithelial cells cause airway hyperreactivity and mucus overproduction in asthma

Nature Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 885-889

  Kuperman, Douglas A ^a   Huang, Xiaozhu ^a   Koth, Laura L ^a   Chang, Grace H ^a   Dolganov, Gregory M ^a   Zhu, Zhou ^b   Elias, Jack A ^b   Sheppard, Dean ^a   Erle, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHOCONSTRICTING AGENT; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 9; STAT6 PROTEIN;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; BRONCHUS MUCUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPHYSEMA; EOSINOPHILIA; GENE EXPRESSION; INFLAMMATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TH2 CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERLEUKIN-13; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUCUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ANIMALIA; BRONCHUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0036344597     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm734     Document Type: Article

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