Constitutive high expression of interleukin-4/13A and GATA-3 in gill and skin of salmonid fishes suggests that these tissues form Th2-skewed immune environments

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 48, Issue 12-13, 2011, Pages 1360-1368

  Takizawa, Fumio ^a   Koppang, Erling Olaf ^b   Ohtani, Maki ^c   Nakanishi, Teruyuki ^c   Hashimoto, Keiichiro ^d   Fischer, Uwe ^a   Dijkstra, Johannes Martinus ^d  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fish; GATA 3; Gill; Interleukins 4 and 13; Skin; Thymus

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; GENE EXPRESSION; GILL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAINBOW TROUT; SALMONID; SKIN; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL; TH2 CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; FISH PROTEINS; GATA3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GILLS; INTERLEUKIN-13; INTERLEUKIN-4; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMO SALAR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SKIN; TH2 CELLS; THYMUS GLAND;

MAMMALIA; MURINAE; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PISCES; SALMO SALAR; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 79957874689     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: 18729142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2011.02.014     Document Type: Article

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