Airway hyperresponsiveness: A story of mice and men and cytokines

Clinical Reviews in Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 85-109

  Townley, Robert G ^a   Horiba, Masahide ^a  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenylate cyclase; Adrenergic receptor polymorphism; Bronchial Hyperresponsiveness (BHR); Cytokines IL 1 , TNF IL 4 and IL 13; Guanine nucleotide regulatory proteins; Methacholine; Smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CYTOKINE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; METHACHOLINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ASTHMA; BREATHING MUSCLE; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EXPIRATORY FLOW; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; MEDIATOR RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BRONCHI; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; BRONCHOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-13; INTERLEUKIN-13 RECEPTOR ALPHA1 SUBUNIT; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; METHACHOLINE CHLORIDE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEUTROPHILS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-13; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0037296809     PISSN: 10800549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/CRIAI:24:1:85     Document Type: Review

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