Immune responses to birch in young children during their first 7 years of life

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1690-1698

  Böttcher, Malin F ^a   Jenmalm, M C ^a   Bjorksten B ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Atopy; Birch; Childhood; IgG subclass antibodies; T cell responses

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 9; MESSENGER RNA; POLLEN ANTIGEN; ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN DERIVATIVE;

ALLERGY; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; ATOPY; BIRCH; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA ANALYSIS; TH2 CELL; AGING; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; HAY FEVER; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; POLLEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREE;

AGING; ALLERGENS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKINS; MALE; POLLEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL; TH2 CELLS; TREES;

EID: 0036454598     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2222.2002.01463.x     Document Type: Article

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