Alternatively spliced variants of interleukin-4 promote inflammation differentially

Journal of Leukocyte Biology

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 763-770

  Luzina, Irina G ^a,b   Lockatell, Virginia ^a   Todd, Nevins W ^a,b   Highsmith, Kendrick ^a   Keegan, Achsah D ^a   Hasday, Jeffrey D ^a,b   Atamas, Sergei P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Lung; Lymphocytes

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHILIA; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG INFILTRATE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GOBLET CELLS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-4; LUNG DISEASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PULMONARY EOSINOPHILIA; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; STAT6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 79955823891     PISSN: 07415400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1189/jlb.0510271     Document Type: Article

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