Regulation and role of transforming growth factor-β in immune tolerance induction and inflammation

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 709-716

  Schmidt Weber, Carsten B ^a   Blaser, Kurt ^a  

^a SWISS INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND ASTHMA RESEARCH SIAF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; DECORIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; HALOFUGINONE; HEPARAN SULFATE; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INHIBIN; INTERLEUKIN 13; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; RETINOL; THROMBOSPONDIN LIKE TRIPEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3; TRITERPENOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URSOLIC ACID;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; CELL FUNCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; DRUG TARGETING; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; TISSUE REPAIR; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INFLAMMATION; INHIBIN-BETA SUBUNITS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 7044284788     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2004.09.008     Document Type: Review

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