Age-related changes in intracellular Th1/Th2 cytokine production, immunoproliferative T lymphocyte response and natural killer cell activity in newborns, children and adults

Biology of the Neonate

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 297-303

  Gasparoni, Antonella ^a   Ciardelli, Laura ^b   Avanzini, Antonia ^b   Castellazzi, Anna Maria ^b   Carini, Roberta ^b   Rondini, Giorgio ^b   Chirico, Gaetano ^a,c  

^a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c Div Neonatologia Terap I   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Human; Natural killer cells; Ontogeny; Th1; Th2

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EVALUATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEWBORN; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADULT; AGING; ANTIGENS, CD45; CD4-CD8 RATIO; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCANAVALIN A; CYTOKINES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0242353358     PISSN: 00063126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000073638     Document Type: Article

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