Ascaris lumbricoides-induced suppression of total and specific IgE responses in atopic subjects is interleukin 10-independent and associated with an increase of CD25+ cells

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 280-286

  Matera, Giovanni ^a   Giancotti, Aida ^a   Scalise, Sonia ^a   Pulicari, Maria Concetta ^a   Maselli, Rosario ^a   Piizzi, Chiara ^a   Pelaia, Girolamo ^a   Tancrè, Valentina ^a   Muto, Valentina ^a   Doldo, Patrizia ^a   Cosco, Vincenzo ^a   Cosimo, Paola ^a   Capicotto, Renata ^a   Quirino, Angela ^a   Scalzo, Rosaria ^a   Liberto, Maria Carla ^a   Parlato, Giuseppe ^a   Focà, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ascaris lumbricoides; CD25+ cells; IgE responses

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ATOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; INFLAMMATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PARAMETER; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EOSINOPHILS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-2 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; INTERLEUKINS; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SKIN TESTS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 54049130360     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.06.015     Document Type: Article

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