Parental characteristics, somatic fetal growth, and season of birth influence innate and adaptive cord blood cytokine responses

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1078-1087

  Gold, Diane R ^a   Bloomberg, Gordon R ^b   Cruikshank, William W ^c   Visness, Cynthia M ^d   Schwarz, John ^d   Kattan, Meyer ^e   O'Connor, George T ^c   Wood, Robert A ^f   Burger, Melissa S ^g   Wright, Rosalind J ^a   Witter, Frank ^f   Lee Parritz, Aviva ^c   Sperling, Rhoda ^h   Sadovsky, Yoel ⁱ   Togias, Alkis ^j   Gern, James E ^g  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Rho Federal Systems Division Inc   (United States)

^e Columbia University School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^h MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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Author keywords

Atopy; birth cohort; cord blood; cytokines; gestational age; immune response

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADULT; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY GROWTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INNATE IMMUNITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PARENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADULT; ALLERGENS; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNITY, ACTIVE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFANT; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES; SEASONS;

EID: 71749106936     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2009.08.021     Document Type: Article

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