Antibody and cytokine responses to house dust mite allergens and Toxoplasma gondii antigens in atopic and non-atopic Brazilian subjects

Clinical Immunology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 148-156

  Fernandes, Jorge F C ^a   Taketomi, Ernesto A ^a   Mineo, Jose R ^a   Miranda, Diego O ^a   Alves, Ronaldo ^a   Resende, Rafael O ^a   Ynoue, Leandro H ^a   Sung, Sun Sang J ^b   Silva, Deise A O ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allergic diseases; Cytokines; House dust mites; Hygiene hypothesis; IgE antibodies; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 17; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; ATOPY; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOMODULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES; ANTIGENS; ANTIGENS, DERMATOPHAGOIDES; BRAZIL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-13; INTERLEUKIN-17; INTERLEUKIN-5; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; SKIN TESTS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953025990     PISSN: 15216616     EISSN: 15217035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2010.02.019     Document Type: Article

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