Role of the chemokine eotaxin in the pathogenesis of equine sweet itch

Veterinary Record

Volumn 151, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 691-693

  Benarafa, C ^a   Collins, M E ^a   Hamblin, A S ^a   Cunningham, F M ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOATTRACTANT; CHEMOKINE; EOTAXIN; INTERLEUKIN 4; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 2; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 4;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LEUKOCYTE MIGRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN FIBROBLAST; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOPSY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHEMOKINE CCL2; CHEMOKINES, CC; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; EOSINOPHILS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; MONOCYTE CHEMOATTRACTANT PROTEINS; PRURITUS; RECEPTORS, CHEMOKINE; RNA, MESSENGER; SALIVA; SKIN; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0037038890     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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