Glucocorticoids enhance interleukin-4 production to neo-antigen (hyaluronidase) in children immunocompromised with cytostatic drugs

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 375-380

  Edelbauer, Monika ^a   Gerstmayr, Marianne ^a   Loibichler, Christine ^a   Jost, Eva ^a   Huemer, Martina ^a   Urbanek, Radvan ^a   Szépfalusi, Zsolt ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cytostatic drugs; Glucocorticoids; Hyaluronidase; IL 4; Specific IgE antibodies; Type I immune reaction

Indexed keywords

CYTOSTATIC AGENT; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYALURONIDASE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYTOKINE; DEXAMETHASONE; HLA D ANTIGEN; HYALURONOGLUCOSAMINIDASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URTICARIA; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHILD WELFARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; INFANT WELFARE; METABOLISM; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYTOKINES; DEXAMETHASONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HLA-D ANTIGENS; HUMANS; HYALURONOGLUCOSAMINIDASE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INFANT; INFANT WELFARE; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-4; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036814570     PISSN: 09056157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3038.2002.02039.x     Document Type: Article

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