Inhibitory effects of fluvastatin on cytokine and chemokine production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells in patients with allergic asthma

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 475-482

  Samson, K T R ^a   Minoguchi, K ^a   Tanaka, A ^a   Oda, N ^a   Yokoe, T ^a   Yamamoto, Y ^a   Yamamoto, M ^a   Ohta, S ^a   Adachi, M ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asthma; Cell proliferation; Chemokine; Chemotaxiscytokine; Statin

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; ALPHA CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE CCL17; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR4; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR3; CYTOKINE; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUINDOSTATIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; MEVALONIC ACID; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DERMATOPHAGOIDES FARINAE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOUSE DUST ALLERGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; SUPERNATANT; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, DERMATOPHAGOIDES; ASTHMA; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMOKINES; CHEMOKINES, CC; CHEMOKINES, CXC; CYTOKINES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, IMMUNOLOGIC; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; INDOLES; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-5; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MEVALONIC ACID; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; RECEPTORS, CHEMOKINE; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 33645282254     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2006.02470.x     Document Type: Article

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