Immunological development of preterm infants in early infancy

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 92-96

  Zhang, B ^a   Ohtsuka, Yoshikazu ^a   Fujii, T ^a   Baba, H ^a   Okada, K ^a   Shoji, H ^a   Nagata, S ^a   Shimizu, T ^a   Yamashiro, Y ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemokine receptors; Low birth weight infants; Preterm infants; Th1 cells; Th2 cells

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR4; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; INTERLEUKIN 4; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFANT DISEASE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ACTINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHEMOKINES, CC; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; RECEPTORS, CCR5; RECEPTORS, CHEMOKINE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 16244386214     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2005.02741.x     Document Type: Article

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