Lung dendritic cells: Targets for therapy in allergic disease

Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology

Volumn 188, Issue , 2009, Pages 99-114

  Lambrecht, Bart N ^a   Hammad, Hamida ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 (6 CARBOXYHEXYL) 1 (3 CYCLOHEXYL 3 HYDROXYPROPYL)HYDANTOIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALLERGEN; ANTIALLERGIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; APYRASE; CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; EOTAXIN; FINGOLIMOD; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; ILOPROST; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEUKOTRIENE B4; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; PROSTAGLANDIN D2; PROSTAGLANDIN RECEPTOR; PURINERGIC P2 RECEPTOR; PURINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; STEROID; SURAMIN; TACROLIMUS; THYMIC STROMAL LYMPHOPOIETIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VAF 347; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AIRWAY; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ALLERGY; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TARGETING; EOSINOPHILIA; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LUNG; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; STEROID THERAPY; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TH2 CELL; ANIMAL; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ALLERGIC AGENTS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; CYTOKINES; DENDRITIC CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LUNG; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 60549102356     PISSN: 01712004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71029-5_5     Document Type: Review

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