High-altitude climate therapy reduces local airway inflammation and modulates lymphocyte activation

Scandinavian Journal of Immunology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 304-310

  Karagiannidis, C ^a   Hense, G ^b   Rueckert, B ^a   Mantel, P Y ^a   Ichters, B ^b   Blaser, K ^a   Menz, G ^b   Schmidt Weber, C B ^a  

^a SWISS INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND ASTHMA RESEARCH SIAF   (Switzerland)

^b Hochgebirgsklinik Davos Wolfgang ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B7 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; PROSTAGLANDIN RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ADULT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPIRED AIR; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH ALTITUDE CLIMATE THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTRINSIC ASTHMA; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOCYTE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS; ASTHMA; BRONCHITIS; CLIMATE; GATA3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-13; L-SELECTIN; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; RECEPTORS, PROSTAGLANDIN; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 33645714238     PISSN: 03009475     EISSN: 13653083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3083.2006.01739.x     Document Type: Article

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