Suppression of eosinophilic airway inflammation by treatment with α-galactosylceramide

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2803-2814

  Morishima, Yuko ^a   Ishii, Yukio ^a   Kimura, Toru ^a   Shibuya, Akira ^a   Shibuya, Kazuko ^a   Hegab, Ahmed E ^a   Iizuka, Takashi ^a   Kiwamoto, Takumi ^a   Matsuno, Yosuke ^a   Sakamoto, Tohru ^a   Nomura, Akihiro ^a   Taniguchi, Masaru ^b   Sekizawa, Kiyohisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

galactosylceramide; Eosinophil; IFN ; NKT cell; VCAM 1

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GALACTOSYLCERAMIDE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERFERON ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; OVALBUMIN; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CELL ADHESION; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG TARGETING; EOSINOPHIL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROVOCATION TEST; SENSITIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TH1 CELL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; COLLAGEN TYPE I; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHILS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GALACTOSYLCERAMIDES; INFLAMMATION; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-13; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-5; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LUNG; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; OVALBUMIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE-1;

EID: 27644504027     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.200525994     Document Type: Article

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