T cell and eosinophil activation in mild and moderate atopic and nonatopic children's asthma in remission

Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-48

  Pumputiene, I ^a   Emuzyte, R ^a   Dubakiene, R ^a   Firantiene, R ^a   Tamosiunas, V ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Atopic asthma; Eosinophil cationic protein; Inflammation; Nonatopic asthma; Soluble interleukin 2 receptor

Indexed keywords

EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; SOLUBLE INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR;

ACCURACY; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; FLUOROIMMUNOASSAY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; REMISSION; SAMPLING; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CYTOKINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; PROBABILITY; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-1; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 33644929275     PISSN: 01054538     EISSN: 13989995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1398-9995.2006.00986.x     Document Type: Article

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