Ramp-ing up allergies: Nramp1 (Slc11a1), macrophages and the hygiene hypothesis

Trends in Immunology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 342-347

  Smit, Joost J ^a,b   Folkerts, Gert ^a   Nijkamp, Frans P ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD14 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; NATURAL RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED MACROPHAGE PROTEIN 1; NITRIC OXIDE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALLERGY; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ASTHMA; ATOPY; CELL PROLIFERATION; DEGRANULATION; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENTERITIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HELMINTH; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTESTINE FLORA; LYSOSOME; MACROPHAGE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TH2 CELL; VACCINATION;

EID: 2942652783     PISSN: 14714906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2004.04.010     Document Type: Article

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