Exposure to a farming environment has allergen-specific protective effects on TH2-dependent isotype switching in response to common inhalants

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 351-358

  Stern, Debra A ^a   Riedler, Josef ^b   Nowak, Dennis ^c   Braun Fahrlander, Charlotte ^d   Swoboda, Ines ^e   Balic, Nadja ^e   Chen, Kuan Wei ^e   Vrtala, Susanne ^e   Grönlund, Hans ^f   van Hage, Marianne ^f   Valenta, Rudolf ^e   Spitzauer, Susanne ^e   Von Mutius, Erika ^g   Vercelli, Donata ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Children's Hospital   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^g LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

allergy; Asthma; atopy; farm exposure; IgE; IgG; immediate hypersensitivity; immunoglobulin switch region

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

AGRICULTURE; ALLERGENICITY; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATOPY; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GRASS; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MALE; MITE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; TH2 CELL;

AGRICULTURE; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DERMATOPHAGOIDES; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; POACEAE; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 33846834041     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2006.10.013     Document Type: Article

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