Thymus- and activation-regulated chemokine (TARC/CCL17) induces a Th2-dominated inflammatory reaction on intradermal injection in mice

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 265-271

  Vestergaard, Christian ^a   Deleuran, Mette ^a   Gesser, Borbala ^a   Larsen, Christian Grønhoj ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cutaneous inflammation; TARC CCL17; Th2 response

Indexed keywords

BETA CHEMOKINE; CD4 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR4; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4; MESSENGER RNA; THYMUS AND ACTIVATION REGULATED CHEMOKINE;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BLOOD; CELL INVASION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HELPER CELL; KERATINOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR BINDING; SKIN; SKIN INFLAMMATION; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHEMOKINES; CHEMOKINES, CC; CYTOKINES; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DNA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RECEPTORS, CHEMOKINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 2442437020     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-6705.2004.00149.x     Document Type: Article

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