Activin and transforming growth factor-β signaling pathways are activated after allergen challenge in mild asthma

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 454-462

  Kariyawasam, Harsha H ^a   Pegorier, Sophie ^a   Barkans, Julia ^a   Xanthou, Georgina ^b   Aizen, Maxine ^a   Ying, Sun ^a   Kay, A Barry ^a   Lloyd, Clare M ^a   Robinson, Douglas S ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

activin A; Asthma; TGF 1

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR 2; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR 2A; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR 2B; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR LIKE KINASE 1; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR LIKE KINASE 4; FOLLISTATIN; INTERLEUKIN 13; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SMAD2 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGY TEST; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOWN REGULATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE I; ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE II; ACTIVINS; ADULT; ALLERGENS; ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FOLLISTATIN; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-13; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD2 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 69549092367     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2009.06.022     Document Type: Article

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