Innate and adaptive immune responses in asthma

Nature Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 673-683

  Holgate, Stephen T ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABATACEPT; ANTIGEN; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTOKINE; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; DACLIZUMAB; DANGER ASSOCIATED MOLECULAR PATTERN; ENOKIZUMAB; GOLD SALT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; KELIXIMAB; LEBRIKIZUMAB; METHOTREXATE; MK 7246; MOGAMULIZUMAB; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OC 000459; PATHOGEN ASSOCIATED MOLECULAR PATTERN; PROSTAGLANDIN RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; RO 4989991; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TACROLIMUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CUTANEOUS T CELL LYMPHOMA; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EOSINOPHIL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INNATE IMMUNITY; INVARIANT NATURAL KILLER T CELL; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOID CELL; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; SEZARY SYNDROME; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TH17 CELL; TH2 CELL; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ASTHMA; DENDRITIC CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; IMMUNITY, INNATE; NATURAL KILLER T-CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84860655039     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.2731     Document Type: Review

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