The intelectins: A new link between the immune response to parasitic infections and allergic inflammation?

American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Volumn 298, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Peebles Jr , R Stokes ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LECTIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASTHMA; CELL INFILTRATION; EDITORIAL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LUNG LAVAGE; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFLAMMATION; LECTINS; MICE; PARASITIC DISEASES; XENOPUS;

EID: 77249109837     PISSN: 10400605     EISSN: 15221504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00441.2009     Document Type: Editorial

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