Exposure to mycotoxins increases the allergic immune response in a murine asthma model

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 181, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1188-1199

  Schütze, Nicole ^a,b   Lehmann, Irina ^a   Bönisch, Ulrike ^a,b   Simon, Jan C ^b   Polte, Tobias ^a,b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Allergy; Dendritic cells; Th1 Th2 cells

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLIOTOXIN; GLUTATHIONE ETHYL ESTER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 5; ISOPROSTANE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; MYCOTOXIN; PATULIN; ACTIN; CYCLINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GLUTATHIONE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INTERLEUKIN DERIVATIVE; ISOPROSTANE DERIVATIVE; POISON; S ETHYL GLUTATHIONE; S-ETHYL GLUTATHIONE; SCAVENGER;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; AIRWAY; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EOSINOPHIL; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOMODULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MOULD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; AIRWAY REMODELING; ANIMAL; ASTHMA; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; BODY PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; GENE TRANSLOCATION; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTE; METABOLISM;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ACTINS; AIRWAY REMODELING; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; DENDRITIC CELLS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EOSINOPHILS; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GLIOTOXIN; GLUTATHIONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-12; INTERLEUKINS; ISOPROSTANES; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LUNG; LYMPHOCYTES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NF-KAPPA B; OXIDATIVE STRESS; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PATULIN; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, WHOLE BODY; POISONS; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; TH2 CELLS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 77954707947     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200909-1350OC     Document Type: Article

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