Yusho patients show increased serum IL-17, IL-23, IL-1β, and TNFα levels more than 40 years after accidental polychlorinated biphenyl poisoning

Journal of Immunotoxicology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 246-249

  Kuwatsuka, Yutaka ^a   Shimizu, Kazuhiro ^a   Akiyama, Yuichiro ^a   Koike, Yuta ^a,b   Ogawa, Fumihide ^a   Furue, Masutaka ^b   Utani, Atsushi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dioxin; IL 17; IL 1 ; IL 22; IL 23; TH17; TNF ; Yusho

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 22; INTERLEUKIN 23; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; BENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; CHLORINATED DIBENZOFURANS; CHLOROBENZENE; CYTOKINE; POLYCHLORINATED QUATERPHENYLS;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE DYSREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MACROPHAGE; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; TH17 CELL; YUSHO DISEASE; BLOOD; CELL CULTURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; IMMUNOLOGY; JAPAN; MALE; UPREGULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BENZOFURANS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHLOROBENZENES; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; JAPAN; MACROPHAGES; MALE; NEUTROPHILS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; TH17 CELLS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84903156784     PISSN: 1547691X     EISSN: 15476901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/1547691X.2013.835890     Document Type: Article

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