The production, storage and release of the neurotrophins nerve growth factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor and neurotrophin-3 by human peripheral eosinophils in allergics and non-allergics

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 649-654

  Noga, O ^a   Englmann, C ^a   Hanf, G ^a   Grutzkau A ^a   Seybold, J ^a   Kunkel, G ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allergy; Asthma; BDNF; Eosinophils; Neurotrophins; NGF; NT 3

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ADULT; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CELL CULTURE; CELL SECRETION; CELL STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; ASTHMA; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELLS, CULTURED; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEUROTROPHIN 3; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0038579710     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2222.2003.01586.x     Document Type: Article

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