Tec family kinases: Regulation of FcεRI-mediated mast-cell activation

FEBS Journal

Volumn 278, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1990-2000

  Ellmeier, Wilfried ^a   Abramova, Anastasia ^a   Schebesta, Alexandra ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

cytokine production; degranulation; early phase and late phase effector functions; Itk; mast cell signaling; Tec; TLR activation; type I hypersensitivity reactions; tyrosine kinases

Indexed keywords

BRUTON TYROSINE KINASE; CYTOKINE; HIGH AFFINITY FC RECEPTOR TYPE I FOR IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 2 INDUCIBLE T CELL KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; TEC FAMILY KINASE; TYROSINE KINASE EXPRESSED IN HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANAPHYLAXIS; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL MATURATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INNATE IMMUNITY; MAST CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TYPE I HYPERSENSITIVITY;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; MAST CELLS; MICE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, IGE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79958156056     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2011.08073.x     Document Type: Review

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