Current aspects of innate and adaptive immunity in atopic dermatitis

Clinical Reviews in Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 35-44

  Wollenberg, Andreas ^a   Klein, Elisabeth ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atopic dermatitis; Innate immunity; Secondary infections

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; BETA DEFENSIN; CATHELICIDIN; FILAGGRIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E RECEPTOR; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 18 BINDING PROTEIN; NECTIN 1; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; VIRUS RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; DENDRITIC CELL; DESMOSOME; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECZEMA VACCINATUM; EPIDERMIS; GENE MUTATION; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBIOLOGY; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LANGERHANS CELL; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR DENSITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKIN PENETRATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VACCINIA; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; DENDRITIC CELLS; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; EPIDERMIS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; KAPOSI VARICELLIFORM ERUPTION; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LANGERHANS CELLS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 39649092548     PISSN: 10800549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12016-007-0032-9     Document Type: Review

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