Chronic nicotine stimulation modulates the immune response of mucosal T cells to Th1-dominant pattern via nAChR by upregulation of Th1-specific transcriptional factor

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 432, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 217-221

  Kikuchi, Hidezumi ^a   Itoh, Jugoh ^a   Fukuda, Shinsaku ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

GATA 3; Inflammatory bowel disease; nAChR; T cells; T bet; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; MECAMYLAMINE; NICOTINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3;

ARTICLE; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LAMINA PROPRIA; MUCOSA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; UPREGULATION;

AGED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GATA3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HUMANS; MALE; MECAMYLAMINE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; NICOTINIC ANTAGONISTS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RNA, MESSENGER; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TH1 CELLS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 39149118004     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.12.027     Document Type: Article

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