Role of interleukin-18 in allergy and autoimmunity: An explanation for the hygiene hypothesis

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 305-307

  Mojtahedi, Zahra ^a   Ghaderi, Abbas ^a,b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 18;

ACCELERATION; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; HUMANS; HYGIENE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTERLEUKIN-18; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 19744375817     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.02.029     Document Type: Article

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