Female mice are more susceptible to the development of allergic airway inflammation than male mice

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1496-1503

  Melgert, B N ^a   Postma, D S ^a   Kuipers, I ^a   Geerlings, M ^a   Luinge, M A ^a   Van Der Strate, B W A ^a   Kerstjens, H A M ^a   Timens, W ^a   Hylkema, M N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Airway hyper responsiveness; Allergy; Asthma; Eosinophils; Females; Gender; IgE; Ovalbumin; Regulatory T cells; Sex hormones

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; METHACHOLINE; OVALBUMIN; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; CD4 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN DERIVATIVE; METHACHOLINE CHLORIDE; RANTES;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; B LYMPHOCYTE; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SENSITIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TH2 CELL; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; IMMUNOLOGY; INHALATION TEST; LUNG; LUNG LAVAGE; PATHOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; ASTHMA; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKINS; LUNG; MALE; METHACHOLINE CHLORIDE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OVALBUMIN; RANTES; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; SEX FACTORS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 33645223560     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2005.02362.x     Document Type: Article

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