Th1/Th2 profile in peripheral blood in atopic cough and atopic asthma

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 84-89

  Shirai, Toshihiro ^a   Suzuki, K ^a   Inui, N ^b   Suda, T ^b   Chida, K ^b   Nakamura, H ^b  

^a Fujinomiya City General Hospital   (Japan)

^b HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airway hyper responsiveness; Capsaicin; CD4+ T cells; Flow cytometry; IFN IL 4; Intracellular cytokine

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 4; IONOMYCIN; PHORBOL MYRISTATE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CELL ASSAY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COUGH; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-4; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0037238080     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2222.2003.01578.x     Document Type: Article

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