Cytokine responses correlate differentially with age in infancy and early childhood

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 446-453

  Härtel, Christoph ^a   Adam, N ^a   Strunk, T ^a   Temming, P ^a   Muller Steinhardt M ^a   Schultz, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age correlation; Childhood; Cytokine; Infancy; T lymphocyte

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; IONOMYCIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AGE; ARTICLE; ATOPY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFANCY; INFANT; MONITORING; MONOCYTE; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYTOKINES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-12; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-5; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MONOCYTES; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 28344434529     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: 13652249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2005.02928.x     Document Type: Article

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