Basophils: What they 'can do' versus what they 'actually do'

Nature Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1333-1339

  Min, Booki ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2 INTEGRIN; CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA; CD209 ANTIGEN; CD23 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR3; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; FC RECEPTOR; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 120; HISTAMINE; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 2; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 25; INTERLEUKIN 4; MESSENGER RNA; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; THY 1 ANTIGEN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 6; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 2;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BASOPHIL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STIMULATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; GENE MUTATION; HELIGMOSOMOIDES POLYGYRUS; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LEUKOCYTE FUNCTION; MAST CELL; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS BRASILIENSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TH2 CELL; VIRUS IMMUNITY;

ANIMALS; BASOPHILS; HUMANS;

EID: 56349171260     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni.f.217     Document Type: Review

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