Expression and function of the ST2 gene in a murine model of allergic airway inflammation

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1520-1526

  Oshikawa, K ^a   Yanagisawa, K ^a   Tominaga, S ^a   Sugiyama, Y ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allergy; Asthma; Gene therapy; T1 ST2; Type 2 helper T cell

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; LIPID; MESSENGER RNA; OVALBUMIN;

ALLERGY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TRANSFER; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LUNG FLUID; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SPLEEN CELL; TH2 CELL;

ALLERGENS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-5; LUNG; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, ANIMAL; OVALBUMIN; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY;

EID: 0036408831     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2002.01494.x     Document Type: Article

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