B Cells: From early development to regulating allergic diseases

Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 209-225

  Samitas, Konstantinos ^a   Lötvall, Jan ^a   Bossios, Apostolos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Allergy; B cell development; Bone marrow; Effector B cell; Regulation

Indexed keywords

APRIL PROTEIN; B CELL ACTIVATING FACTOR RECEPTOR; B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CD134 ANTIGEN; CD135 ANTIGEN; CD19 ANTIGEN; CD22 ANTIGEN; CD23 ANTIGEN; CD24 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CD40 LIGAND; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD72 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR2; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3D RECEPTOR; IKAROS TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; LEUKOSIALIN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; STEM CELL ANTIGEN 1; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PU 1; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; LYMPHOPOIESIS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING;

EID: 77953026248     PISSN: 0004069X     EISSN: 16614917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00005-010-0073-2     Document Type: Review

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