Interaction of environmental allergens with airway epithelium as a key component of asthma

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 101-108

  Kauffman, Henk F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; PROTEINASE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; CELL DAMAGE; CELL INTERACTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOTOXICITY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EOSINOPHIL; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; REVIEW; TH2 CELL; ASTHMA; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRONCHUS; EPITHELIUM; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM;

ALLERGENS; ASTHMA; BRONCHI; CYTOKINES; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS;

EID: 0037529442     PISSN: 15297322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11882-003-0021-x     Document Type: Review

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