Silica exposure and altered regulation of autoimmunity

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 322-329

  Lee, Suni ^a   Matsuzaki, Hidenori ^a   Kumagai Takei, Naoko ^a   Yoshitome, Kei ^a   Maeda, Megumi ^b   Chen, Ying ^c   Kusaka, Masayasu ^d   Urakami, Kozo ^e   Hayashi, Hiroaki ^a   Fujimoto, Wataru ^a   Nishimura, Yasumitsu ^a   Otsuki, Takemi ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Kusaka Hospital   (Japan)

^e HInase Uragami Iin   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Autoimmune; CD95 Fas; Regulatory T cell; Silica; Silicosis

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; FAS ANTIGEN; SILICON DIOXIDE;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREGULATION; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE REACTION; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SILICOSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TH17 CELL; BLOOD; BUILDING INDUSTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; IMMUNOLOGY; JAPAN; LYMPHOCYTE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

AUTOIMMUNITY; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LYMPHOCYTES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILICOSIS;

EID: 84919496553     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-014-0403-9     Document Type: Review

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