Prevention of allergen-specific IgE production and suppression of an established Th2-type response by immunization with DNA encoding hypoallergenic allergen derivatives of Bet v 1, the major birch-pollen allergen

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1667-1676

  Hochreiter, Romana ^a   Stepanoska, Tatjana ^a   Ferreira, Fatima ^a   Valenta, Rudolf ^b   Vrtala, Susanne ^b   Thalhamer, Josef ^a   Hartl, Arnulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Allergy; Cytokine; DNA vaccination; Th1; Th2 cell

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; DNA VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PLASMID DNA; POLLEN ANTIGEN; PROTEIN BET V 1; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; BIRCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SENSITIZATION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FEMALE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; GENETIC CODE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; WILD TYPE;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; BASOPHIL DEGRANULATION TEST; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERFERON TYPE II; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS; TREES; VACCINES, DNA;

EID: 0038758932     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.200323377     Document Type: Article

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