Cytokine production in peripheral blood cells during and outside the pollen season in birch-allergic patients and non-allergic controls

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 123-130

  Wosinska Becler, K ^a   Plewako, H ^a   Hakansson L ^b   Rak, Sabina ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Kinetics; Monocytes; Seasonal allergy; T cells

Indexed keywords

ACRIVASTINE; ANTAZOLINE; CD14 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; LEVOCABASTINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NAPHAZOLINE;

ADULT; ALDER; ARTICLE; ATOPY; BIRCH; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MONOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLLEN ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINOCONJUNCTIVITIS; SEASON; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ADULT; BETULA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTOKINES; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLLEN; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0842291811     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2004.01850.x     Document Type: Article

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