State-of-the-art review about basophil research in immunology and allergy: Is the time right to treat these cells with the respect they deserve?

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 148-164

  Chirumbolo, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basophil; Basophil activation test; Immune response; Immunoregulatory cells

Indexed keywords

CD11B ANTIGEN; CD123 ANTIGEN; CD164 ANTIGEN; CD40 LIGAND; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD63 ANTIGEN; CD69 ANTIGEN; GAG PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 3; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 9; LEUKOTRIENE; LEUKOTRIENE C4; LEUKOTRIENE E4; LYSOSOME ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; PROTEIN KINASE SYK; THYMIC STROMAL LYMPHOPOIETIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 10; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ALLERGY; BASOPHIL; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL FUNCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MAST CELL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA;

ANIMALS; BASOPHILS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNE SYSTEM PHENOMENA; INFLAMMATION;

EID: 84860539710     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2011.0020-11     Document Type: Review

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