Fetal epigenetic mechanisms and innate immunity in asthma

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 434-443

  Pfefferle, Petra Ina ^a   Pinkenburg, Olaf ^a   Renz, Harald ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allergy; Allergy protection; Animal model; Asthma; Environmental exposures; Fetal; Innate immune system; Microbial stimuli; Prenatal; Toll like receptors

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON DERIVATIVE; PROBIOTIC AGENT; TOBACCO SMOKE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ASTHMA; DISEASE COURSE; EXHAUST GAS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MATERNAL SMOKING; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ASTHMA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER;

EID: 78049316329     PISSN: 15297322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11882-010-0147-6     Document Type: Review

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