Basophils, IgE, and autoantibody-mediated kidney disease

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 186, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 6083-6090

  Bosch, Xavier ^a   Lozano, Francisco ^a   Cervera, Ricard ^a   Ramos Casals, Manuel ^a   Min, Booki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR1; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR2; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR3; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR1; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR3; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 3; INTERLEUKIN 4; PROTEIN KINASE LYN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; BASOPHIL; CELL FUNCTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHORT SURVEY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; BASOPHILS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN-4; LUPUS NEPHRITIS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 79958037643     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1002648     Document Type: Short Survey

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