Cutting edge: Atopy promotes Th2 responses to alloantigens and increases the incidence and tempo of corneal allograft rejection

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 174, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 6577-6581

  Beauregard, Clay ^a   Stevens, Christina ^a   Mayhew, Elizabeth ^a   Niederkorn, Jerry Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIGEN;

ALLERGY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATOPIC KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; ATOPY; CELL INFILTRATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HOST; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INCIDENCE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TH2 CELL;

EID: 18944394701     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.11.6577     Document Type: Article

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