Small bowel of patients with asthma and allergic rhinitis: Absence of inflammation despite the presence of major cellular components of allergic inflammation

Allergy and Asthma Proceedings

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 253-259

  Pires, Gisele V ^a   Souza, Heitor S P ^a   Elia, Celeste C S ^a,b   Zaltman, Cyrla ^a   Carvalho, Ana Teresa P ^a   Tortori, Claudio J A ^a   Garrofé, Henrique C ^a   Lapa E Silva, José Roberto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Apartment 201 ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 4 ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 5 ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENUM; ENDOSCOPY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; IRRITABLE COLON; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; SMALL INTESTINE; STAINING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; ASTHMA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DUODENUM; EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-5; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL;

EID: 4544231684     PISSN: 10885412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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