Differential susceptibility to staphylococcal superantigen (SsAg)-induced apoptosis of CD4+ T cells from atopic dermatitis patients and healthy subjects: The inhibitory effect of IL-4 on SsAg-induced apoptosis

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1102-1108

  Lin, Yu Tsan ^a   Wang, Chen Ti ^a   Hsu, Chen Tong ^a   Wang, Li Fang ^a   Shau, Wen Yi ^b   Yang, Yao Hsu ^a   Chiang, Bor Luen ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR4; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR3; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 4; LIPOCORTIN 5; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 4; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SUPERANTIGEN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN B; SUPERANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN INFLAMMATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

EID: 0038785717     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.2.1102     Document Type: Article

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