Equine insect bite hypersensitivity: What do we know?

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 147, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 113-126

  Schaffartzik, A ^a,b   Hamza, E ^b   Janda, J ^b   Crameri, R ^a   Marti, E ^b   Rhyner, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

AE; Allergy; C. nubeculosus; C. sonorensis; Culicoides; DTH; Horse; IBH; IgE; IGHE; Insect bite hypersensitivity; PAF; S. vittatum; SIT; T reg; WBE

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ALLERGEN SPECIFIC IMMUNOTHERAPY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CROSS REACTION; CULICOIDES; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; IN VITRO STUDY; INSECT BITE; INSECT BITE HYPERSENSITIVITY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; REVIEW; SKIN ALLERGY; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CROSS REACTIONS; DERMATITIS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT PROTEINS; SALIVARY PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES; SIMULIIDAE; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TH2 CELLS;

CULICOIDES NUBECULOSUS; CULICOIDES SONORENSIS; EQUIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84861478302     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: 18732534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2012.03.017     Document Type: Review

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