Update of immune events in the murine contact hypersensitivity model: Toward the understanding of allergic contact dermatitis

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 303-315

  Honda, Tetsuya ^a   Egawa, Gyohei ^a   Grabbe, Stephan ^b   Kabashima, Kenji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR2; CUTANEOUS T CELL ATTRACTING CHEMOKINE; FILAGGRIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; HAPTEN; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 4; STAT6 PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; DENDRITIC CELL; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; KERATINOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; MAST CELL; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SKIN; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN SENSITIZATION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL; TH2 CELL;

EID: 84872597221     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jid.2012.284     Document Type: Review

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